Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.