If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Men create the gods after their own images.