Incentives, Routines, and Self-Command

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Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching … while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also its name is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word (habit).… Of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity… but 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. This is confirmed by what happens in states; for legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish for every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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