Aristotle

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"All proofs rest on premises."	Miscellaneous
"Nature does nothing uselessly."	Nature
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."	Learning
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable."	Ability, Ambition, Desires
"Wit is educated insolence."	Education, School, Teaching
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."	Age, Men
"The gods too are fond of a joke."	Humor
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."	Death, Friends, Sin
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit."	Friends, Hope, Wishing
"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."	Friends, Hope, Men
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."	Ambition, Courage, Desires
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."	Age, Honesty, Lies
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."	Love, Variety, Virtue
"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
"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
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."	Happiness, Joy
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."	Ability
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."	Ability, Acceptance, Education
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."	Death, Education, Life
"All men by nature desire to know."	Ambition, Desires, Knowledge
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