Aristotle

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily_x000D_ _x000D_ by saying nothing, doing nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ and being nothing.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.