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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

― Aristotle
tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics
tags: wisdom
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“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle
tags: friendship, soul
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“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle
tags: dreams, hope
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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle
tags: education, ethics
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“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle
tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle
tags: happiness
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“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right
degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within
everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle
tags: anger
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“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and
intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance,
determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle
tags: choice, inspirational
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle
tags: friendship
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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle
tags: happiness
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“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle
tags: friendship
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle
tags: patience
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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
tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers
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“To perceive is to suffer.”
― Aristotle
tags: empathy, life, suffer, understanding
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle
tags: fear, freedom
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“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle
tags: teaching, understanding
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle