The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
The first principle of all action is leisure.
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
The law is reason, free from passion.