Aristotle

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"Slow to promise and quick to perform."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"Wishing to be friends is a quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."

"Life is activity."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he poses the right question."

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

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

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"The free man owns himself. He can command himself."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Every individual human being born in this country without regard to wealth, station, or race, should be taught from infancy his part in American history."

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

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"The desire to understand the world is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"A man is not hurt but by himself."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."

"Happiness is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."

"Anything is possible to him who will try."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

"In making a decision of merely personal importance, I should have consulted only my own wishes; but in a case involving the welfare of a nation, I owed it to the nation to let other considerations prevail."

"The happy life is thought to be one of honor."

"One cannot learn to write, unless one writes much."

"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."