"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca on fear
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"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse."

Seneca on gratitude
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"He who is brave is free."

Seneca on freedom
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"Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

Seneca on gifts   

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca on giving
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"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

Seneca on goals
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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

Seneca on goals
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"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."

Seneca on fear
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."

Aristotle on evolution
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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."

Aristotle on self-control
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"The soul never thinks without a picture."

Aristotle on soul
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on teacher
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle on poverty and the poor
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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

Aristotle on possibilities
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

Aristotle on beauty
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on pleasure
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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."

Aristotle on parents and parenting
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

Aristotle on action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on action
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

Aristotle on courage
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on writers and writing
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Aristotle on wit
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"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

Aristotle on temperament
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on character
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle on nature
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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."

Aristotle on morality
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Aristotle on excellence
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