“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“Through discipline comes freedom.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.”
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Fortune favours the bold.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“Well begun is half done.”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”
“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.”
“The complete man must work, study and wrestle.”
“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”
“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“Wit is educated insolence.”
“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
“Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.”
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
“All communication must lead to change.”
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
“Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.”
“Wonder implies the desire to learn.”
“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”
“Beauty is the gift of God.”
“When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.”
“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.”
“The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“Our characters are the result of our conduct.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“A person’s life persuades better than his word.”
“Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.”
“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
“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.”
“Philosophy begins with wonder.”
“Human beings are curious by nature.”
“In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”
“All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”
“It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.”
“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own.”
“If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.”
“The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.”
“The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.”
“Every realm of nature is marvelous.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.”
“Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”
“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”
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