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“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

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

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“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

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

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

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
― Aristotle

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

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
― Aristotle

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
― Aristotle

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
― Aristotle

“PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”
― Aristotle

“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
― Aristotle