Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.