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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind – Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own – Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind – Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion – Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it – Aristotle