Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

Perception starts with the eye.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.