Aristotle

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"It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it."	Anger, Time
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."	Choice, Evil, Friends
"Man is by nature a political animal."	Men, Nature, Politics
"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."	Honesty, Men, Truth
"Education is the best provision for old age."	Age, Education, School
"Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."	Art
"Change in all things is sweet."	Change
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Ambition, Desires, Habits
"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."	Honesty, Lies, Truth
"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."	Fear, Men, Military
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."	Miscellaneous
"Philosophy is the science which considers truth."	Honesty, Truth
"We make war that we may live in peace."	Life, Military, Peace
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Law, Writing
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."	Excellence, Greatness, Habits
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."	Age, Courage, Men
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."	Virtue
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."	Friends, Happiness, Joy
"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."	Excellence, Greatness, Habits
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."	Genius
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