The other, to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. My Speech to the Graduates. No one can reasonably doubt that fundamental change is needed. If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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.