for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.