All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Man is a political animal.
The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Man is by nature a social animal.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Change in all things is sweet.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Hope is a waking dream.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.