Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.