Philosopher

Man is by nature a political animal.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Akar pendidikan itu pahit, tetapi buahnya manis.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Harapan adalah impian orang yang terjaga.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Pujian selalu menyiratkan referensi ke standar yang lebih tinggi.

Jelas lebih baik bahwa properti harus bersifat pribadi, tetapi penggunaannya umum; dan urusan khusus pembuat undang-undang adalah menciptakan watak yang baik ini pada laki-laki.

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

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.