Aristotle

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. AristotleA friend is a second self. AristotleAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. AristotleDignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. AristotleHappiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle Law is mind without reason. Aristotle Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. AristotleMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle 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. AristotlePleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle The gods too are fond of a joke. Aristotle 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. AristotleThe only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. Aristotle To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. AristotleTo perceive is to suffer. Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. AristotleYoung people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics' It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.Evil brings men together. Aristotle, (attributed) Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon. Aristotle, Eudemos

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