Aristotle

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain sentence."

"Nature has made the lion a lion; and you may call him king because he is stronger than other beasts."

"He who cannot be a good friend, cannot be a good citizen."

"The actuality of thought is life."

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"Change in all things is sweet."

"The virtues, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to instruction."

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

"All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"Humans are creatures of habit."

"Poverty is the parent of crime and violence."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."

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

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater man to accept it graciously."

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit."

"Nature operates in the shortest way possible."

"Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled."

"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in virtue."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations."

"The soul of man is divided into three kinds of virtue, intellectual, moral, and practical wisdom."

"Logos is being awake. It is the real."

"One swallow does not make a summer."

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"The purpose of rhetoric is to persuade."