Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

. .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.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

A man is the origin of his action.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.