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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms – Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness – Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well – Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit – Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence – Aristotle