Worthless Persons Appointed To Have Supreme Control

Republics Decline Into Democracies And Democracies Degenerate Into Despotisms.

...one Greek City State Had A Fundamental Law: Anyone Proposing Revisions To The Constitution Did So With A Noose Around His Neck. If His Proposal Lost He Was Instantly Hanged.

The Souls Ability To Nourish Itself Lies In The Heart.

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.

We Should Behave To Our Friends As We Would Wish Our Friends Behave To Us