Philosopher

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

He who hath many friends hath none.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Setiap seni dan setiap pertanyaan, dan demikian pula setiap tindakan dan pilihan, dianggap mengarah pada suatu kebaikan; dan untuk alasan ini yang baik telah dinyatakan dengan benar sebagai tujuan dari segala sesuatu.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Jika kebahagiaan adalah aktivitas yang sesuai dengan kesempurnaan, masuk akal bahwa itu harus sesuai dengan kesempurnaan yang tertinggi.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Kami adalah apa yang kami lakukan berulang kali. Keunggulan, kemudian, bukanlah tindakan, tetapi kebiasaan.

Well begun is half done.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.