We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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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.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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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.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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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.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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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.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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All men by nature desire to know.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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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.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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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.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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Happiness is activity.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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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.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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