“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
– Aristotle
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
– Aristotle
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
– Aristotle
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
– Aristotle
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
– Aristotle
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
– Aristotle