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Confidence
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Control
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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.
-Aristotle
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Crime
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
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Deception/Lying
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
-Aristotle
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Dignity
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
-Aristotle
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Discipline
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
-Aristotle
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Education
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Education is the best provision for old age.
-Aristotle
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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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.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle
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Empire
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
-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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Equality
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
-Aristotle
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
-Aristotle
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
-Aristotle
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Evil
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
-Aristotle
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Excellence
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
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Family
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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
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Forgiveness
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Bad men are full of repentance.
-Aristotle
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Freedom
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
-Aristotle
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Friends
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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
-Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live.
-Aristotle
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