Aristotle

Attributed

• "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."

• "Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
  • Also expressed as: "Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving 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."

• "In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities."

• "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."

• "Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work."

• "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

• "The gods too are fond of a joke."

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

• "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."

• "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."