But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.