The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
ARISTOTLEOf all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul
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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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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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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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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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