"He who has never learned to obey..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.”

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

“Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.”

“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”

“I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?”

“So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.”

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”

“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”