Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action – this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.
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Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must have been brought up in good habits.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
