Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.