"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deeds and good deeds
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"Either a beast or a god."

Aristotle on humankind
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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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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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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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"Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on indifference   

"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office."

Maclaine, Shirley on promises
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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