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| ARISTOTLE |
| �A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and unskilled labor.�
�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 who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.� �Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not easy.� �Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.� �Dignity does not consist possessing honors, but in deserving them.� �Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.� �Hope is a waking dream.� �How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.� �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.� �I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.� (In Stobaeus, Florilegium) �If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.� �It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.� �It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.� (Nicomachean Ethics, 325 BC) �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.� |
| (384-322 B.C.) |
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