Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Quote by Aristotle

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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in...

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in...

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not.

The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled...

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled...

Hope is the dream of the waking man.

Hope is the dream of the waking man.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my...

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too...

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too...

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be...

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be...

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature does nothing in vain.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing...

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing...

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his...

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his...

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and...

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and...

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who...

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who...