The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

To love someone is to identify with them.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.