A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
A sign of this is what happens in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies.
The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.
Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Thanks to the discrepancies between people’s thoughts and their actions, and to the diversity of their wishful impulses.
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have improved.
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.