Aristotle quotes He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Variant: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. Quoted in Florilegium by Joannes Stobaeus In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Parts of Animals I.645a16 Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have. Generation of Animals III.761a2 Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male. Generation of Animals as translated by Arthur Leslie Peck (1943), p. 175 Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Eudemian Ethics VII.1238a20 Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. Physics [edit] Rhetoric It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. (I.1355b1) Evils draw men together. (I.1362b39) (quoting a proverb) Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. (I.1369a5) Variant: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning.... All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything; they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. (II.1389a31) Wit is well-bred insolence. (II.1389b11) It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. (II.1395b27) [edit] Politics Politics Man is by nature a political animal. (I.1253a2) Variant: Man is an animal whose nature it is to live in a polis. (H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks) Nature does nothing uselessly. (I.1253a8) He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. (I.1253a27) Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. (I.1253a31)

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural. (I.1258b4) Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different causethe wickedness of human nature. (II.1263b15) It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. (II.1267b4) Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. (II.1269a4) Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. (II.1269a9) That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. (II.1270b39) They should rule who are able to rule best. (II.1273b5) The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. (III.1276b34) A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. (III.1280b30, 1281a3) The law is reason unaffected by desire. (III.1287a32) Variant: The Law is reason free from passion. 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 the government to the utmost. (IV.1291b34) Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. (V.1302a29) Well begun is half done. (V.1303b30) (quoting a proverb) Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. (V.1311a11) A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. (V.1314b39) The basis of a democratic state is liberty. (VI.1317a40) Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities. (VII.1323b1) Law is order, and good law is good order. (VII.1326a29) Let us then enunciate the functions of a state and we shall easily elicit what we want: First there must be food; secondly, arts, for life requires many instruments; thirdly, there must be arms, for the members of a community have need of them, and in their own hands, too, in order to maintain authority both against disobedient subjects and against external assailants.... (VII.1328b4) The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. (VII.1335a27) It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.