Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
ARISTOTLEIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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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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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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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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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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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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Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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