Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Hope is a waking dream.