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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.
Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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