It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
AristotleI count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
AristotleOnce more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.
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