the ancients procrastinated too

"Well begun is half done."

- Aristotle [384BCE-322BCE]

measured comic motion

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
- Issac Newton [1643 - 1727]

so gay

"You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates."
- President Richard M. Nixon

Lyceum

"Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
- Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle

Courage is the most important virtue because it enables all the others.
- Aristotle paraphrased

Image source here.

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

- Aristotle

attributed to

"You become good by observing good people."
- Aristotle

"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 purposes, and in the right way - that is not easy."
- Aristotle

"That which we learn with delight we will never forget."
- Aristotle interpreted by Bill Moyers

habit

"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 [384-322 BCE]

An earlier reference on this blog to Raphael's School of Athens here.