“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider to be God-fearing and pious.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“he who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander”

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”

“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.”