aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.