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

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.