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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

How God ever brings like to like.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

A friend is a second self.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.