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Aristotle
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Nature does nothing uselessly.

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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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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.

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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

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