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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope – Aristotle

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech – Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more – Aristotle

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

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