Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

Aristotle

The good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Aristotle

… We would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

Aristotle

…it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it… for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.

Aristotle

…the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

Aristotle

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

Aristotle

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

Aristotle