Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Aristotle

The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.

Aristotle

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Aristotle

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

Aristotle

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Aristotle

The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers.

Aristotle

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle