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Anger
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.
-Aristotle
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Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.
-Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric, sect. 6, ch. 2.4.
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Children
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
-Aristotle, (attributed)
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Education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
-Aristotle
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Envy / Jealousy
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
-Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric, sect. 6, ch. 2.11.
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Excellence
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
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Friends
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-Aristotle
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Happiness
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"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..."
-Aristotle
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Intelligence
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"Wit is educated insolence."
-Aristotle, attributed, no source found
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
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Poverty
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-Aristotle
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Revolution
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
-Aristotle
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
-Aristotle
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Selfishness
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"That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.”
-Aristotle
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Solitude
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
-Aristotle, Politics
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Stubbornness
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Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
-Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Bk. VII
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Tragedy
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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude - bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions.
-Aristotle
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