The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

That which is excellent endures.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.