Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

About Aristotle

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

—André Maurois

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

—Agatha Christie

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

—Abigail Van Buren

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