The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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

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

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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.

And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about...

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his...

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor… the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

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

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it...

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end...

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

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

Aristotle… a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious…

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. –Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things...

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.