Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
AristotleConscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
AristotleEvery formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.
AristotleThe rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
AristotleOur virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
Aristotle