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

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”

“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

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

“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

“The secret to humor is surprise.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”

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

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”