The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance – Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first – Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence – Aristotle

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

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