It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.