Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

To love someone is to identify with them.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

All men by nature desire to know.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Happiness is a sort of action.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.