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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Topic: Achievement
Source: None
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
Topic: Affection
Source: None
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Topic: Bravery
Source: None
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How God ever brings like to like.
Topic: Comparisons
Source: Ethics Mag (2, 11)
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.
Topic: Crisis
Source: None
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Topic: Equality
Source: None
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Topic: Excellence
Source: None
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A friend is a second self.
Topic: Friendship
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]
Topic: Genius
Source: quoted by Burton's in "Anatomy of Melancholy"
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No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.
Topic: Geometry
Source: None
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Topic: Goals
Source: None
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Topic: Goodness
Source: None
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Topic: Habits
Source: None
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Topic: Honor
Source: None
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Hope is a waking dream.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
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Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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Wit is cultured insolence.
Topic: Humor
Source: None
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same
ideas make their appearance in the world.
Topic: Ideas
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
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If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Topic: Ideas
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've
only ever had one.
Topic: Ideas
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Topic: Insanity
Source: None
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive
according to desert.
Topic: Justice
Source: Metaphysics--On the Virtues and Vices--Justice
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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Topic: Justice
Source: Metaphysics--On the Virtues and Vices--Justice
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.
Topic: Life
Source: Rhetoric (II, 15, par. III)
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry,
and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the
beautiful.
Topic: Mathematics
Source: Metaphysica (3-1078b)
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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
Topic: Metaphors
Source: Poetics (XXII)
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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. -Aristotle.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Topic: Morals
Source: None
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Topic: Mothers
Source: None
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