Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.