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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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 all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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.

Law is mind without reason.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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.