The text of the philosopher Aristotle’s reply

To King Alexander, may God grant you success, O noble son and majestic, just King. May God guide you on the path of the ways of guidance and protect you from the deviation of desire and others, and may He lead you in the lives of the Hereafter and the first [life]. ⁂ Regarding your letter in which you mention the compassion you feel, your falling behind, and my absence from your sight, and your desire that I establish for you a law that you might make a balance for everything you possess: understand my speech well, and act in all your affairs in my stead, knowing that you have already learned...