"Where id was, there shall ego be."

Freud, Sigmund on maturity
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"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"One is very crazy when in love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture."

Freud, Sigmund on anger
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

Freud, Sigmund on liberty   

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."

Freud, Sigmund on insanity
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"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."

Alexander The Great on medicine
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."

Shaw, George Bernard on nations   

"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

Aristotle on truth
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"The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions."

Aristotle on tragedies
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"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

Aristotle on temperament
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on teacher
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on character
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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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"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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"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Aristotle on wit
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"It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize."

Aristotle on wonder   

"The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another."

Johnson, Samuel on nationalities and nationalism
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"The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch."

Proverb on nationalities and nationalism
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"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."

Geldof, Bob on nationalities and nationalism
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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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"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy."

Aristotle on courage
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"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."

Aristotle on confidence   

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on courage
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

Aristotle on life
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."

Aristotle on youth
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on writers and writing
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."

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

Aristotle on nature
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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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"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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"Cruel is the strife of brothers."

Aristotle on family   

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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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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