Aristotle

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

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

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time."

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

"A tragedy is thus a process of imitating an action that is serious and also, in respect of its magnitude, complete."

"To perceive is to suffer."

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

"Not all who wander are lost, some are just learning."

"The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities."

"Truth is the beginning of every good thing."

"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 actions of others."

"More than anything else, the eyes reveal the soul; the way they rest on another person can be like a caress."

"The most perfect political community is formed by citizens of the middle class."

"Anger is a response to felt injury."

"A friend is another self."

"On the whole, God has been with us."

"Nature is not mute. It speaks to those with the ears to hear."

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor."

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

"For this is the error of our days, that we do not know what we do not know."

"The law is reason free from passion."

"He who hath many friends hath none."

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

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

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

"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor."

"The soul of man is infinite and never dies."

"Doing easy things makes life easy. Doing hard things makes life hard."

"In friendship, there is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

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