Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Wit is educated insolence.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Well begun is half done.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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.
We make war that we may live in peace.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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.