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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Human beings are curious by nature.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.