Aristotle — "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation…"

"From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule."

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."

"For the female is more compassionate than the male, and more easily moved to tears, and more jealous, and more querulous, and more apt to scold and to strike."

"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

"Those who are in a position which places them above toil have stewards who attend to their households while they occupy themselves with philosophy or with politics."