Our actions determine our dispositions.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
In justice is all virtues found in sum.