We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Man is by nature a political animal.