“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ”
“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.”
“...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.”
“As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action”
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.”