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

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 – Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action – Aristotle

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

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

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference – Aristotle