"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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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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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

Aristotle on empire
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

Aristotle on equality
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle on freedom
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

Santayana, George on education
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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."

Santayana, George on dignity
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"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers."

Erdos, Paul on mathematics
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"Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were."

Bergman, George E. on tact and tactfulness
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."

Santayana, George on fanatics and fanaticism
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"There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves."

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"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."

Santayana, George on freedom
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"Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener."

Thomason, Pauline on marriage
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"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer."

Santayana, George on impossibility
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"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."

Santayana, George on history and historians
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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"Habit is stronger than reason."

Santayana, George on habit
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

Santayana, George on fun
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"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese"

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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion."

Dowson, Ernest on fidelity