"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on pleasure
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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"Never complain and never explain. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me."

Harrelson, Woody on violence
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

Gandhi, Mahatma on wisdom
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"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."

Pope, Alexander on evil
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"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."

Pope, Alexander on disappointments
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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Lincoln, Abraham on slavery
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"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't."

Chambers, Oswald on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

Bacon, Francis on ability
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

Erasmus, Desiderius on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Others have done it before me. I can, too."

Faunce, Corporal John on ability
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."

Brancusi, Constantin on architecture
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

Ellis, Havelock on obstacles
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"Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself."

Proverb, Scottish on faults
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Hillary, Sir Edmund on obstacles
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"The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice."

Bavee on obstacles   

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on joy
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"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on excellence
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on existence
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"A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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