Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

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Friendship is communion.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.