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“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
― Buddha

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
― Buddha

“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.”
― Aristotle

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
― Aristotle, Selected Works

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
― Aristotle

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
― Aristotle, Politics

“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
― Aristotle

“A friend is a second self.”
― Aristotle

“The secret to humor is surprise.”
― Aristotle

“Through discipline comes freedom.”
― Aristotle

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”
― Aristotle, Aristotle's Poetics