Aristotle

"Misfortune shows those that are not really friends."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it makes trouble for a time, it does not stop it anywhere."

"Virtue is a habit."

"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."

"The gods do not give all men gifts of beauty, brains, or brawn; but everyone can be a good man."

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

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides."

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

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

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

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but to preserve it—she must use a little heart."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as injured as those who are."

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"Leisure is the basis of culture."

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

"A tyrant is always stirred up by some sophist or flatterer."

"Things that are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"An audience is just a group of people who wait to see if you're better than them."

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

"Art is not just a thing that is produced, with subjects and manners at a given time, but a constant, smoldering energy."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"The student of politics observes that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is naturally a political animal."

"The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being bosnia but means to choose, to separate, to divide, to cut off."

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."