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• Justice can be a characteristic of an individual or of a community (...) We may therefor find justice on a larger scale in the lager entity, and so easier to recognize

  Socrates

• A well-run society [is like] the human body, in which the whole is aware of the feelings of the part

  Plato

• ... although the young may be experts in geometry and mathematics and similar branches of knowledge, we do not consider that a young man can het Prudence. The reason is that Prudence includes a knowledge of particular facts, and this is derived form experience, which a young mand does not possess; for experience is the fruit of years

  Aristoteles

• There are some things the lack of which takes the lustre from happiness, such as good birth, goodly children, beauty

  aristoteles

• Nature is itself an end; for whatever is the end-product of the coming into existence of any object, that is what we call its nature.

  aristoteles

• As all associations aim at some good, that association which is the most sovereign among them... we call the state...1. That which is the 'good' of a thing makes for its preservation2. While that state came about as a means of securing life itself, it continues in being to secure the good life

  aristoteles

• It is not by means of external goods that men acquire and keep the virus, but the other way round

  aristoteles

• it is impossible for those who do niet do good actions to do well, and there is no such thing as a man's or a state's good action without virtue and practical wisdom

  Aristoteles

• ... the state has a natural priority over the household and over any individual among us. For the whole must be prior to the part.

  Aristoteles

• The fourth alternative, that the respectable should rule and have sovereign power over everything, means that all the rest must be without esteem, being debarred form the honor of holding office under the constitution.

  Aristoteles