Aristotle

"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young."

"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."

"The happy life is thought to be virtuous; now a virtuous life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement."

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

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

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

"The greatest form of wisdom is kindness."

"A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself."

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it."

"All human actions are due to one or other of these motives: desire, fear, hope, rage, love, or preference."

"Wit is educated insolence."

"The happy life is lived in accordance with virtue; it is a life involving effort and is not a state of amusement."

"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

"Everybody supposes that to be good at everything would be something fine and admirable, but that is not the real position."

"The basis of the good life is freedom, but the basis of a free life is death."

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."

"Beautiful objects themselves teach the love of beauty."

"The life of theoretical wisdom is the best and pleasantest for its own sake."

"Such as men are, they will make such laws."

"A work is properly shadowed when it possesses the quality of poetic beauty."

"The word 'friend' is one of the greatest words in any language."

"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."

"The finest people are quiet people."

"We cannot change what we are, but we can change what we do."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"A man cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if he has not dined well."

"Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty."

"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than by reverence."