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- You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can…
- If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire.…
- We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
- Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the…
- The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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