卓越是一門藝術,來自訓練加上習慣。我們行事會得宜,不是因為有美德或卓越,而是因為行為得宜,而擁有美德或卓越。我們重複做的事會造就我們。因此卓越不是一次行動,而是一種習慣。
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
避免批評只有一個辦法:就是什麼都不做,什麼都不說,什麼都不是。