Aristotle

It may be argued that, if the less vulgar is the higher, and the less vulgar is always that which addresses the better public, an art addressing any and every one is of a very vulgar order

The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life."

is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible.

Since then every family is part of a city, and each of those individuals is part of a family, and the virtue of the parts ought to correspond to the virtue of the whole; it is necessary, that both the wives and children of the community should be instructed correspondent to the nature thereof, if it is of consequence to the virtue of the state, that the wives and children therein should be virtuous, and of consequence it certainly is, for the wives are one half of the free persons; and of the children the succeeding citizens are to be

for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

he proper method—first to sketch the outline, and then to fill in the details.

the incontinent man’s impulses run counter to his reason.

A man may do something grammatical [or write something correctly] by chance, or at the prompting of another person: he will not be grammatical till he not only does something grammatical, but also does it grammatically [or like a grammatical person], i.e. in virtue of his own knowledge of grammar.

Thus anyone can be angry—that is quite easy; anyone can give money away or spend it: but to do these things to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right object, and in the right manner, is not what everybody can do, and is by no means easy; and that is the reason why right doing is rare and praiseworthy and noble.

Now, praise33 or blame is given only to what is voluntary; that which is involuntary receives pardon, and sometimes even pity.