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

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

Aristotle on habit
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"Happiness is activity."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"The secret to humor is surprise."

Aristotle on humor
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

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

Aristotle on life
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Without friends no one would choose to live."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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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."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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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."

Aristotle on goals
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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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