"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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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

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

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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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

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

Aristotle on life
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

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

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

Aristotle on education
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on purpose
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on argument
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"If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on life
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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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"He who laughs best today, will also laugh last."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on laughter
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on laughter
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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on jesus christ
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"Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on instinct
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"I love those who do not know how to live for today."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on punishment
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on psychology
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on opinions
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on music
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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on mistakes   

"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on memory
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on marriage
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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