About Aristotle: Aristotle is in his debt."
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
We make war that we may live in peace.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that h...
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
