If you take others for granted, God may do the same thing with you.

Perceptions are often misplaced.

Nobody can make it to the present or the future by clinging to their past.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

The word ‘I’ should be a non-entity because it promotes ego.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.