A promise made must be a promise kept.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it