Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive t — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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