For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Hope is a waking dream. [info][add][mail][note]

Education is the best provision for old age.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Evil brings men together.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

To perceive is to suffer.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. [info][add][mail][note] Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.