Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“By doing just actions we come to be just.”
- Source
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Date
- 4th century BCE
- English wording
- D. P. Chase — Translator · from Ancient Greek
Meaning of “By doing just actions we come to be…”
Character is formed through repeated conduct: practicing just actions helps turn justice from an abstract ideal into a stable disposition.
Where does it come from?
Nicomachean Ethics, Book II; Aristotle explains virtue as something developed through corresponding actions.
