Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
AristotleThe good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
AristotleOf ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
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