"God's finger touched him and he slept."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Death and Dying
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"In my end is my beginning."

Stuart, Mary on Death and Dying
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

Aristotle on Morality
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on Love
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on Anger
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle on Animals
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on Hope
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on Happiness
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on Goals
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"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

Aristotle on Goals
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Aristotle on Excellence
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

Aristotle on Morality
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on Self-control
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

Aristotle on Courage
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"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy."

Aristotle on Courage
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on Courage
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on Writers and Writing
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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."

Aristotle on Virtue
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

Aristotle on Truth
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on Teachers and Teaching
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"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."

Aristotle on Character
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on Character
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on Action
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"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 on Excellence
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on Evil
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"Without friends no one would choose to live."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on Friends and Friendship
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on Friends and Friendship
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on Impossibility
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"In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity."

Alexander The Great on Faith
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on Affection
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"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

Aristotle on Equality
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