Aristotle

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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