Aristotle

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

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

“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”

“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”

“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.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”