To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
ARISTOTLEEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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