“Virtues...we acquire just as we acquire craft, by having first activated them. For we learn a craft by producing the same product we must produce when we have learned it; we become builders, for instance, by building and we become harpists by playing the harp. Similarly, then, we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.”
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