He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue