To write well, express yourself like the common people, but... - Aristotle

"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."

"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."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."

"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."

"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."