If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

They should rule who are able to rule best.