Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Art takes nature as its model.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.