Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Art takes nature as its model.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.