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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ↗

— Aristotle

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ↗

— Aristotle

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ↗

— Aristotle

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He who hath many friends hath none. ↗

— Aristotle

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ↗

— Aristotle

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. ↗

— Aristotle

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

— 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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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. ↗