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«I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.»
Author: Aristotle
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Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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Keywords:
being brave,
braver,
conquers,
count,
desires,
enemies,
hardest,
over,
overcame,
overcomes,
self,
victory
«We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.»
«Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.»
«The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.»
«He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.»
«The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.»
«Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient»
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(
Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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About:
Action,
Chance,
Habit
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Keywords:
Actions,
causes,
Cause of action,
chance,
compulsions,
desire,
habit,
human action,
passion,
reason,
seven,
sevens,
these
«Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.»
Author: Aristotle
(
Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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About:
Friendship
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Keywords:
fruit,
fruited,
quick,
ripened,
ripening,
ripens,
slow,
slowed,
slowing,
slows,
wishing
«No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.»