The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.