Aristotle Quotes on Leadership
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.