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01c. 353 BC

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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02c. 353 BC

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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03c. 353 BC

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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04c. 353 BC

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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05c. 353 BC

The gods too are fond of a joke.

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06c. 353 BC

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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07c. 353 BC

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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08c. 353 BC

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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09c. 353 BC

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

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10c. 353 BC

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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11c. 353 BC

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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12c. 353 BC

Happiness is a state of activity.

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13c. 353 BC

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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14c. 353 BC

Hope is a waking dream.

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15c. 353 BC

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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16c. 353 BC

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

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17c. 353 BC

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

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18c. 353 BC

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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19c. 353 BC

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

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20c. 353 BC

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

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21c. 353 BC

Adventure is worthwhile.

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22c. 353 BC

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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23c. 353 BC

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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24c. 353 BC

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

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