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.

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...

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}

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

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in...

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted,...

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

We must not listen to those who advise us ‘being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts’ but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve...

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

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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....

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

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, ‘that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live;...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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...

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Happiness is activity of soul.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true...

The soul never thinks without a picture.

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...

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.