Aristotle

The gods, too, are fond of a joke.

Wit is educated insolence.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.