Quotes

“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.” Aristotle

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.” Aristotle

“The gods too are fond of a joke.” Aristotle

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” Aristotle

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” Aristotle

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.” Aristotle

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

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” Aristotle

“Most people would rather give than get affection.” Aristotle

“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.” Aristotle

“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.” Aristotle

“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.” Aristotle

“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.” Aristotle

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.” Aristotle

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.” Aristotle

“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.” Aristotle

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.” Aristotle

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.” Euripides

“Cleverness is not wisdom.” Euripides

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.” Euripides

“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.” Euripides

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” Euripides

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” Euripides

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” Euripides

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.” Euripides

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” Euripides

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” Euripides

“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.” Euripides

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” Euripides

“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.” Euripides