“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle
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“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.”
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“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”
― Aristotle
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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
― Aristotle
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“I have gained this by philosophy; that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
― Aristotle
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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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“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle
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“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Aristotle
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“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
― Aristotle
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“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”
― Aristotle
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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
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“Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.”
― Aristotle
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“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
― Aristotle
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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
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“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
― Aristotle
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“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
― Aristotle
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