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Aristotle

Aristotle
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Wit is educated insolence.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
All men desire to know.