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

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.