Aristotle

No science ever defends its first principles.

Aristotle

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Aristotle

Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.

Aristotle

None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.

Aristotle

Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.

Aristotle

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Aristotle

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

Aristotle

One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all.

Aristotle

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

Aristotle

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Aristotle