Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.