Aristotle

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

There is honor in being a dog.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.