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

Hope is a waking dream – Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms – Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference – Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy – Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness – Aristotle