Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
— Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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Teenagers these days are out of control.
They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, Say nothing, and Be nothing.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you!
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Wit is educated insolence.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
Without friends no one would choose to live.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need;
therein you will discover your purpose
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
