ARISTOTLE

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

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

"If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out."

"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude."

"Bad men are full of repentance."

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

"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."

"All men by nature desire knowledge."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

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

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."