In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

We must become just be doing just acts.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.