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“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“AUTUMNAL

Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.”
― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
― Georg Hegel

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― 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

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

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

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

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

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

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

“To perceive is to suffer.”
― Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
― Aristotle

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
― Aristotle

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

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
― Aristotle, Politics

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