Aristotle The Muse

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle

A friend is a second self.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance,
nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness
that we deserve them.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Law is mind without reason.

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.

Men 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.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

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.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before
the law.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be
rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

To perceive is to suffer.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because
youth is sweet and they are growing.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Hope is a waking dream.


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