Aristotle

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

— Aristotle

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

— Aristotle · paraphrase of Nicomachean Ethics

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

— Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

— Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics (paraphrased by Will Durant)

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

— Aristotle

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”

— Aristotle · Politics, Book VI, c. 350 BC