Aristotle

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"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."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"The gods too are fond of a joke."

"Happiness is a state of activity."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"The gods too are fond of a joke."

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

"He who hath many friends hath none."

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"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."