Perfect Friendship Is The Friendship Of Men

No One Chooses What Does Not Rest With Himself, But Only What He Thinks Can Be Attained By His Own Act.

That Education Should Be Regulated By Law And Should Be An Affair Of State Is Not To Be Denied, But What Should Be The Character Of This Public Education, And How Young Persons Should Be Educated, Are Questions Which Remain To Be Considered. As Things Are, There Is Disagreement About The Subjects. For Mankind Are By No Means Agreed About The Things To Be Taught, Whether We Look To Virtue Or The Best Life. Neither Is It Clear Whether Education Is More Concerned With Intellectual Or With Moral Virtue.

It Is Clear, Then, That Wisdom Is Knowledge Having To Do With Certain Principles And Causes. But Now, Since It Is This Knowledge That We Are Seeking, We Must Consider The Following Point: Of What Kind Of Principles And Of What Kind Of Causes Is Wisdom The Knowledge?

A City Is Composed Of Different Kinds Of Men; Similar People Cannot Bring A City Into Existence.

While The Faculty Of Sensation Is Dependent Upon The Body, Mind Is Separable From It