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.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.

The quality of a life is determined by its activities

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.