No one loves the man whom he fears.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

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

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

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

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

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

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

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Wit is educated insolence.

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

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Philosophy can make people sick.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Hope is a waking dream.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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

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

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.

The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and incidents of the play—which is the better way and shows the better poet. The Plot in fact should be so framed that even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears...

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

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

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

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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 become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you. Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch… such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and...

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