Our Feelings Towards Our Friends Reflect Our

Inasmuch As Every Family Is A Part Of A State, And These Relationships Are The Parts Of A Family, And The Virtue Of The Part Must Have Regard To The Virtue Of The Whole, Women And Children Must Be Trained By Education With An Eye To The Constitution, If The Virtues Of Either Of Them Are Supposed To Make Any Difference In The Virtues Of The State. And They Must Make A Difference: For The Children Grow Up To Be Citizens, And Half The Free Persons In A State Are Women.

Civil Confusions Often Spring From Trifles But Decide Great Issues.

Happiness Is An Expression Of The Soul In Considered Actions.

That In The Soul Which Is Called Mind (by Mind I Mean That Whereby The Soul Thinks And Judges) Is, Before It Thinks, Not Actually Any Real Thing. For This Reason It Cannot Reasonably Be Regarded As Blended With The Body

... The Friendship Of Worthless People Has A Bad Effect (because They Take Part, Unstable As They Are, In Worthless Pursuits, And Actually Become Bad Through Each Other's Influence). But The Friendship Of The Good Is Good, And Increases In Goodness Because Of Their Association. They Seem Even To Become Better Men By Exercising Their Friendship And Improving Each Other; For The Traits That They Admire In Each Other Get Transferred To Themselves.