Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.