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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly describe...more

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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all o...more

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but t...more

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man o...more

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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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 ...more

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperat...more

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good...more

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these...more

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A man without regrets cannot be cured.

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One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happi...more