The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

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

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.