优秀是一种习惯

亚里士多德说过，优秀是一种习惯。we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit

我们在做什么决定了我们成为什么样的人，看不见的决定看得见的

so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy

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"; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: "the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life; ... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy."

优越性是一门经由训练和习惯塑造而得的艺术，我们不因具备美德或优越性而举止得体，相反，我们拥有这些品质是因为我们举止得体。“这些美德的形成是因为人采取了这些行动”，我们就是我们反复行动所展示出来的人。因此，优越性不是一个动作而是一个习惯：“人之善是灵魂在充实人生、实现卓越过程中的工作。。。正如并非一只燕子或一个晴天就意味着春天一样，昙花一现或三天打鱼两天晒网似的行动并不能使人得到祝福或感到幸福。”