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

Aristotle on action
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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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"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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"Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness."

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

Aristotle on beauty
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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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"All men by nature desire to know."

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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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

Aristotle on morality
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"They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."

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

Aristotle on life
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"Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done."

Shakespeare, William on appreciation
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"In time we hate that which we often fear."

Shakespeare, William on fear
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"The best safety lies in fear."

Shakespeare, William on fear
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"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."

Shakespeare, William on faults
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings."

Shakespeare, William on fate
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"The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants."

Shakespeare, William on family
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"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man."

Shakespeare, William on dress
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"The apparel oft proclaims the man."

Shakespeare, William on dress   

"That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."

Shakespeare, William on death   

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."

Aristotle on crisis
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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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"It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken."

Aristotle on moderation
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"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

Aristotle on memory
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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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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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

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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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on dignity
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"The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain."

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"Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health."

Tupper, Martin on pain
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