Aristotle

"The function of a good leader is not to make more leaders but to make the people feel they can do without them."

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion."

"To love someone is to desire that person's good and to work to effect it."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."

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

"The fall of the dictator by death or else by impeachment is inevitable."

"Patience is a virtue, and virtues are states of the soul."

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve one's health, but in all other matters it is bad to be influenced by it."

"The actuality of thought is life."

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"The soul never thinks without a picture before it."

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

"No one would choose to live without friends even if he had all other goods."

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

"In life, the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"We make war that we may live in peace."

"The law is reason free from passion."

"Admiration and love are like open hands; contempt and hatred like closed fists."

"Humans are creatures of habit."

"Good is that at which everything aims."

"The mind is what makes us human."

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

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

"Seeking wisdom before wealth is seeking the highest good before the inferior."

"The mark of a truly educated person is to be deeply moved by statistics."

"Laws should not be written with too much strictness, because they cannot cover all cases."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."