For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle