It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
Law is mind without reason.
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.