Aristotle
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Change in all things is sweet.
- Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
- Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
- 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.
- Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
- He who hath many friends hath none.
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Quality is not an act; it is a habit.
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Well begun is half done.
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.