Aristotle
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.Collection: Firsts
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.Collection: Hearing
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.Collection: Self
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.Collection: Being Strong
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.Collection: Character
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.Collection: Character
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mindCollection: Mind
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.Collection: Freedom
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.Collection: Soul
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.Collection: Mindfulness
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.Collection: Wise
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purposeCollection: Over You
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.Collection: Love
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.Collection: Drinking
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.Collection: Mean
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Collection: Inspiration
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.Collection: Men
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.Collection: Happiness
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.Collection: Life
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.Collection: Wise
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.Collection: Hurt
What we expect, that we find.Collection: Law Of Attraction
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.Collection: Peace
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.Collection: Freedom
Happiness is the reward of virtue.Collection: Rewards
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.Collection: Inspirational
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.Collection: May
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.Collection: Men
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.Collection: Men
To Unlearn is as hard as to LearnCollection: Hard
To love someone is to identify with them.Collection: Love
Happiness depends on ourselves.Collection: Happiness
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.Collection: Ambition
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.Collection: Believe
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.Collection: Art
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.Collection: Life
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.Collection: Words Of Wisdom
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.Collection: Real
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.Collection: Sex
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.Collection: Men
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.Collection: Dream
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.Collection: Art
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.Collection: Animal
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.Collection: Men
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.Collection: Creative
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.Collection: Music
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.Collection: Courage