Aristotle

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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."	Excellence
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Ambition, Desires, Habits
"All men by nature desire to know."	Ambition, Desires, Knowledge
"All proofs rest on premises."	Miscellaneous
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."	Virtue
"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 - that is not easy."	Anger, Time
"Change in all things is sweet."	Change
"Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."	Art
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."	Age, Courage, Men
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."	Government, Happiness, Joy
"Education is the best provision for old age."	Age, Education, School
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Law, Writing
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."	Happiness, Joy
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self."	Ambition, Courage, Desires
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."	Ambition, Courage, Desires
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."	Democracy, Equality, Freedom
"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."	Age, Friends, Honesty
"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
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."	Ability, Acceptance, Education
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."	Age, Men
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