It Is Possible To Fail In Many

Happiness Seems To Require A Modicum Of External Prosperity.

If Then, As We Say, Good Craftsmen Look To The Mean As They Work, And If Virtue, Like Nature, Is More Accurate And Better Than Any Form Of Art, It Will Follow That Virtue Has The Quality Of Hitting The Mean. I Refer To Moral Virtue [not Intellectual], For This Is Concerned With Emotions And Actions, In Which One Can Have Excess Or Deficiency Or A Due Mean.

It Is Possible To Fail In Many Ways . . . While To Succeed Is Possible Only In One Way (for Which Reason Also One Is Easy And The Other Difficult - To Miss The Mark Easy, To Hit It Difficult).

No One Chooses What Does Not Rest With Himself, But Only What He Thinks Can Be Attained By His Own Act.

The One Exclusive Sign Of Thorough Knowledge Is The Power Of Teaching.