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"Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave."
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar."
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
"What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing."
"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
"They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"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."
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
"Wit is educated insolence."
"The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it."
"The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse."
"Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much."
"Man is by nature a political animal."
"The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow."
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."