Power Relative

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or relative:

    “It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
    —Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)