Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.


Aristotle

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue ...
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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the ...
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...
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Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to w...
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the...
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura ...
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