Aristotle ( 384 BC ~ 322 BC )
We are what we repeatedly do.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Law is mind without reason.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Hope is a waking dream.
Well begun is half done.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
They should rule who are able to rule best.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
One swallow does not make a summer.
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.
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
To perceive is to suffer.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.