If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
AristotleA democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
AristotleIt is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
AristotleIn a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Aristotle