Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
ARISTOTLEPoverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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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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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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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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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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