Aristotle

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”

“To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“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 government to the utmost.”

“Well begun is half done.”

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

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

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

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

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

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”