The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
ARISTOTLEMan is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.
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The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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