Aristotle

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

We are what we continually do.

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Perception starts with the eye.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.