"Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue."
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"To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good."
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"Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation."
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"There must be in prudence also some master virtue."
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"If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue."
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"Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave."
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"You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues."
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"When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody."
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"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
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"That cardinal virtue, temperance."
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"Idleness breeds our better virtues."
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"Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness."
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"For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours."
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"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."
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"Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it."
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"The virtue of books is to be readable."
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"Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues."
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