Misfortune shows those who are not really friends – Aristotle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor – Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others – Aristotle

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 – Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire – Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind – Aristotle