In the words of Aristotle:
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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