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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ↗

— Aristotle

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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ↗

— Aristotle

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ↗

— Aristotle

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ↗

— Aristotle

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. ↗

— Aristotle

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

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In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

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