"We can do noble acts without ruling..." - Quote by Aristotle

“. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.”

“A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.”

“If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.”

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”

“So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.”

“Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.”