Misfortune shows those who are not really friends – Aristotle

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

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well – Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture – Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god – Aristotle