Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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

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

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.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.