Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

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.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

All men by nature desire knowledge.