Hope is a waking dream – Aristotle

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit – Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves – Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise – Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind – Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost – Aristotle