Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
AristotleHe who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
AristotleNeither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle