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Our actions determine our dispositions.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
Moral qualities, then, are not given to us by nature or against nature. Nature does prepare us to receive them, but they are fully formed by habit.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
We must become just be doing just acts.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
