Aristotle

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

If something's bound to happen, it will _x000D_ happen.. Right time, right person, and for _x000D_ the best reason.

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.