Aristotle

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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."	Excellence
"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."	Failure
"It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it."	Anger, Time
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."	Ambition, Courage, Desires
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."	Virtue
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."	Miscellaneous
"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."	Honesty, Lies, Truth
"All men by nature desire to know."	Ambition, Desires, Knowledge
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."	Choice, Evil, Friends
"Change in all things is sweet."	Change
"Wit is educated insolence."	Education, School, Teaching
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."	Miscellaneous
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."	Genius
"The gods too are fond of a joke."	Humor
"Education is the best provision for old age."	Age, Education, School
"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."	Friends, Hope, Men
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."	Ability, Acceptance, Education
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Ambition, Desires, Habits
"Man is by nature a political animal."	Men, Nature, Politics
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit."	Friends, Hope, Wishing
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