The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

That which is excellent endures.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.