ARISTOTLE

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do."

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

"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."

"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."

"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."

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

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

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

"We make war that we may live in peace."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man."

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

"Hope is a waking dream."

"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."

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

"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue."

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."

"Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation."

"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

"Through discipline comes freedom."

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

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

"Happiness is a state of activity."

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

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

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

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