Famous quotes containing the words relative and/or position:
“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.)
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)