The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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...

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.

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

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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

Most people would rather give than get affection.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or...

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man...

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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

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

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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.

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

Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

…happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves…. The...

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor....

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.