About Aristotle: Aristotle is in his debt."
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely tru...
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good 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.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
