Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
ARISTOTLEFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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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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Change in all things is sweet.
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A friend is a second self.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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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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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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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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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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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 happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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