Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.