All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind – Aristotle
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more – Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach – Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work – Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government – Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit – Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance – Aristotle