Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Hope is a waking dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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