All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
ARISTOTLEHe 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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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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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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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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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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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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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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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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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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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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