Aristotle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Wit is educated insolence.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Well begun is half done.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.