The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.– AristotleCopy➔View Quote
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.– AristotleCopy➔View Quote
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.– AristotleCopy➔View Quote
