Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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?

The best things are placed between extremes.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.