In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
Character is revealed through action.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.