Act Accordingly

Aristotle, from Nichomachean Ethics 1103b21–22:

“The virtues we get by first exercising them… men become builders by building, and lyre-players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

Will Durant sums up the thought: “We are what we repeatedly do?”

Act accordingly.

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