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“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.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

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Author:Aristotle

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

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Author:Will Durant

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

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Author:Aristotle

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“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.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

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

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

Source: Eudemian Ethics

“Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.”

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Author:Plato

“It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.”

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Book:Jumpers

Source: Jumpers

“Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.”

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Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.”

“If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.”

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Author:Socrates

“Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers”

“I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.”

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Author:Paul Dudley White

“I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'”

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Author:Arianna Huffington

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Author:Plutarch

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

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Author:Plutarch

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”

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Author:Plutarch

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

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Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

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Author:Aristotle

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

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.”

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Author:Chaim Potok

“Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.”

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Author:Aristotle

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

“The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.”

“Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.”

Source: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”

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Author:Epicurus

“Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?”

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Author:Dale Carnegie

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

Source: Politics

“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

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Book:Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

Source: Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

“True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.”

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Author:Theophrastus

“Man is the measure of all things.”

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Author:Protagoras

“To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.”

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Book:The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

Source: The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

“A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.”

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Author:Plutarch

“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”

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Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.”

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Book:The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.”