Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Subject:
Education
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Subject:
Nature
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Subject:
Friendship
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Subject:
Age
Youth
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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.
Subject:
Politicians
Power
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Subject:
Work
Work:
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Subject:
Lies
Work: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Subject:
Equality
Work:
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Subject:
Education
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We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
Subject:
Knowledge
Work: Metaphysics
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Subject:
Excellence
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Subject:
Democracy
Dictatorship
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Subject:
Community
Work: Politics
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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
Subject:
Wisdom
Work: Nichomachean Ethics
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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Subject:
Failure
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Subject:
Learning
Work: Nichomachean Ethics
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Subject:
Truth
Human Nature
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Subject:
Freedom
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
Subject:
Leadership
Work: Politics
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