Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we… - Will Durant

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.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; "these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions";[69] we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit;"

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

كان الإسكندر هو الذي ساعد على إدخال عادة حلق اللحية في أوروبا، وحجته في ذلك أن اللحية تمكن العدو من القبض على صاحبها. ولعل أكبر آثاره في التاريخ هو هذا الأثر التافه.