All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind – Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit – Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture – Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit – Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost – Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms – Aristotle