Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
AristotleWhere your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
AristotlePoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleTake the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.
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