ARISTOTLE

• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.


• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.


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


• They who are to be judges must also be performers.


• It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - it is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.


• Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.


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


• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.


• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.


• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.


• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.


• There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.


• Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.


• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.


• Happiness depends on ourselves.


• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.


• Hope is a waking dream.


• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.


• The law is reason free from passion.


• When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.


• All that we do is done with an eye to something else.


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


• Man is by nature a political animal.


• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.


• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.


• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.


• All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.


• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.


• Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.


• The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only.


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