Aristotle

Civil strife is caused not only by inequality of property, but also by inequality of honors.

Aristotle

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Aristotle

Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.

Aristotle

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Aristotle

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Aristotle

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.

Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.

Aristotle