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Aristotle

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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."	Miscellaneous
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."	Education, School, Teaching
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."	Excellence
"What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."	Lies, Power
"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
"Nature does nothing uselessly."	Nature
"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
"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
"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."	Failure
"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."	Success
"[The argument of Alcidamas:] Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day."	Wisdom
"She's got to learn to reconcile herself to being Mrs Aristotle Onassis because the only place she'll find sympathy from now on is in the dictionary between shit and syphilis."	Humor
"[Find a priest] who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin."	Humor
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