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

Happiness depends upon ourselves – Aristotle

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence – Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government – Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit – Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers – Aristotle