Aristotle

Well begun is half done.

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.