(1) If it be in our power to act right, the contrary is equally in our own power; hence vice is as much voluntary as virtue.

(2) Man must be admitted to be the origin of his own actions.

(3) Legislators and others punish men for wickedness, and confer honour on good actions; even culpable ignorance and negligence are punished.

(4) Our character itself, or our fixed acquirements, are in our power, being produced by our successive acts; men become intemperate, by acts of drunkenness.

(5) Not only the defects of the mind, but the infirmities of the body also, are blamed, when arising through our own neglect and want of training.