Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Men acquire a particular quality by acting a particular way.
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the divine service.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.
The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness.
Habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts.
Nothing is what rocks dream about.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Hope is a walking dream.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
And poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
The actuality of thought is life.
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.