Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
AristotleThose who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
AristotleThe virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle