"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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"A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything"

Proverb, African on wisdom
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"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

Proverb, African on failure
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"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

Proverb, African on enemies
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"A rich man has no need of character."

Proverb, Hebrew on character   

"An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death."

Proverb, Hebrew on relatives   

"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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"When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding."

Proverb, Chinese on knowledge   

"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today."

Proverb on confession
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"He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it."

Proverb on common sense
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"A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap."

Proverb on children
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"Children and drunks always speak the truth."

Proverb on children
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"Try and trust will move mountains."

Proverb on action   

"Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down."

Proverb on action
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"By others faults the wise correct their own."

Proverb on wisdom   

"Truth fears nothing but concealment."

Proverb on truth
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"Time tries truth."

Proverb on truth
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"Lost time is never found again."

Proverb on time
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"In teaching others we teach ourselves."

Proverb on teacher
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"Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away."

Proverb on courage   

"Love is like war, easy to begin, hard to end"

Proverb on
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"Your friend has a friend; don't tell him."

Proverb, Chinese on gossip
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"When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh."

Proverb, Chinese on the future
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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends."

Proverb, Chinese on friends and friendship
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him."

Proverb, Chinese on enemies
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"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on doubt
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"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Proverb, Chinese on direction
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on decisions
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window."

Proverb on charity   

"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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"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

Billings, Josh on happiness   

"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on happiness
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"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on happiness
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"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness."

Fichte, Johann G. on happiness
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"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it."

Feather, William on happiness
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