Aristotle

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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

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

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

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

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

“Change in all things is sweet.”

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.”

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

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Philosophy can make people sick.”

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

“Man is by nature a civic animal.”

“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”

“Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.”

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

“The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words...”

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

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

“Wit is educated insolence.”

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

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

“Every science seeks certain principles and causes for each of its objects—e.g. medicine and gymnastics and each of the other sciences, whether productive or mathematical. For each of these marks off a certain class of things for itself and busies itself about this as about something existing and rea...”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world”

“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.”

“Well begun is half done.”

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

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”

“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“No one loves the man whom he fears.”

“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.”

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”

“Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.”

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

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

“He who hath many friends hath none.”

“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”

“To perceive is to suffer.”

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”