Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.