Aristotle

"Courage is the mean between fear and rashness."

"Nature has made some people smart, some people beautiful, and some people rich. Make a choice."

"Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire."

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

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"It is the mark of a cultured person to disagreeable without being disagreeable."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Revenge is sweet, but it also destroys the avenger."

"Observation is a lost art among us."

"The virtuous man is happy both in life and in death."

"To him who understands the secrets of production, nothing is cheap that is good."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the well-being of humanity."

"The most perfect political community must be made up of citizens of the middle class."

"It is unbecoming a man to be so absorbed in the things of the flesh."

"The gods too are fond of a joke."

"Evils draw men together."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than even their parents."

"Every household manager must have heard those words before: 'Are we there yet?'"