The lover of truth who is truthful even when nothing is at stake will be keener to tell the truth when something is at stake.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/; Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, pronounced [aristotélɛːs], Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. He established a library in the Lyceum which aided in the production of many of his hundreds of books. The fact that Aristotle was a pupil of Plato contributed to his former views of Platonism, but, following Plato's death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all peoples' concepts and all of their knowledge was ultimately based on perception. Aristotle's views on natural sciences represent the groundwork underlying many of his work
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
He who grasps everything himself is best of all; he is noble also who listens to one who has spoken well; but he who neither grasps it himself nor takes to hear what he hears from another is a useless man.
Virtues...we acquire just as we acquire craft, by having first activated them. For we learn a craft by producing the same product we must produce when we have learned it; we become builders, for instance, by building and we become harpists by playing the harp. Similarly, then, we become just by…
We say that an end pursued in its own right is more complete than an end pursued because of something else, and that an end that is never choiceworthy because of something else is more complete than ends that are choiceworthy both in their own right and because of this end.
Happiness, by contrast, no one chooses...the sake of anything else at all.
Money is not the good we should seek because it is merely useful for some other end.
The fine shines through in adversity...if it is in fact there.
Wisdom produces happiness, not in the way that medical science produces health, but in the way that health produces health.
The boaster seems to claim qualities to win reputation, though he either lacks them altogether or has less than he claims. The self-deprecator, by contrast, seems to disavow or to belittle his actual qualities. The intermediate person is straightforward, and therefore truthful in what he says and…
Happiness is not a state. For if it were, someone might have it and yet be asleep for his whole life, living the life of a plan or suffer the greatest misfortunes. We count happiness as an activity rather than a state.