Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.