We are what we continually do.
All men are alike when asleep.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.