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1 I, 3 | in years or youthful in character; the defect does not depend 2 I, 9 | citizens to be of a certain character, viz. good and capable of 3 I, 10 | said, what gives life its character, no happy man can become 4 I, 13 | in speaking about a man’s character we do not say that he is 5 II, 1 | in one word, states of character arise out of like activities. 6 II, 1 | is because the states of character correspond to the differences 7 II, 2 | nature of the states of character that are produced, as we 8 II, 3 | take as a sign of states of character the pleasure or pain that 9 II, 4 | they should have a certain character, but if the acts that are 10 II, 4 | have themselves a certain character it does not follow that 11 II, 4 | a firm and unchangeable character. These are not reckoned 12 II, 5 | passions, faculties, states of character, virtue must be one of these. 13 II, 5 | feeling pity; by states of character the things in virtue of 14 II, 5 | they should be states of character.~Thus we have stated what 15 II, 6 | describe virtue as a state of character, but also say what sort 16 II, 6 | also will be the state of character which makes a man good and 17 II, 6 | Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying 18 II, 9 | that it is such because its character is to aim at what is intermediate 19 III, 2 | we are men of a certain character, which we are not by holding 20 III, 4 | to him? For each state of character has its own ideas of the 21 III, 5 | that make the corresponding character. This is plain from the 22 III, 5 | particular objects that states of character are produced is the mark 23 III, 5 | a form answering to his character. We reply that if each man 24 III, 5 | responsible for our states of character, and it is by being persons 25 III, 5 | that they are states of character, and that they tend, and 26 III, 5 | But actions and states of character are not voluntary in the 27 III, 5 | beginning of our states of character the gradual progress is 28 III, 7 | the corresponding state of character. This is true, therefore, 29 III, 7 | previously that many states of character have no names), but he would 30 III, 8 | proceeded more from a state of character, because less from preparation; 31 III, 8 | accordance with one’s state of character.~(5) People who are ignorant 32 III, 8 | have, then, described the character both of brave men and of 33 III, 11 | people of entirely slavish character that become like this. But 34 IV, 1 | gifts but in the state of character of the giver, and this is 35 IV, 1 | thought to have not a bad character; it is not the mark of a 36 IV, 1 | to people of respectable character, and much to flatterers 37 IV, 2 | deficiency of this state of character is called niggardliness, 38 IV, 2 | the begining, a state of character is determined by its activities 39 IV, 2 | he ought.~These states of character, then, are vices; yet they 40 IV, 3 | we consider the state of character or the man characterized 41 IV, 3 | nobility and goodness of character. It is chiefly with honours 42 IV, 3 | this is more proper to a character that suffices to itself.~ 43 IV, 4 | events this is the state of character that is praised, being an 44 IV, 7 | both know the facts about character better if we go through 45 IV, 7 | lives in accordance with his character, if he is not acting for 46 IV, 7 | and in life because his character is such. But such a man 47 IV, 7 | lead to money, is an uglier character (it is not the capacity 48 IV, 7 | in virtue of his state of character and by being a man of a 49 IV, 7 | seem more attractive in character; for they are thought to 50 IV, 7 | man; for he is the worse character.~ 51 IV, 8 | thought to be movements of the character, and as bodies are discriminated 52 IV, 9 | feeling than a state of character. It is defined, at any rate, 53 IV, 9 | rather than of a state of character.~The feeling is not becoming 54 V, 1 | justice that kind of state of character which makes people disposed 55 V, 1 | faculties as of states of character. A faculty or a science 56 V, 1 | objects, but a state of character which is one of two contraries 57 V, 4 | has a different specific character from the former. For the 58 V, 4 | only to the distinctive character of the injury, and treats 59 V, 9 | result of a certain state of character is neither easy nor in our 60 V, 9 | result of a certain state of character, just as to practise medicine 61 V, 10 | equitable, and this state of character is equity, which is a sort 62 V, 10 | not a different state of character.~ 63 V, 11 | injustice as a state of character), while being unjustly treated 64 VI, 1 | dictates. In all the states of character we have mentioned, as in 65 VI, 1 | that some are virtues of character and others of intellect. 66 VI, 2 | moral virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, and 67 VI, 2 | combination of intellect and character. Intellect itself, however, 68 VI, 12 | the virtues are states of character, just as we are none the 69 VI, 13 | think that each type of character belongs to its possessors 70 VI, 13 | after naming the state of character and its objects add "that ( 71 VII, 2 | appetites are good, the state of character that restrains us from following 72 VII, 5 | discover similar states of character to those recognized with 73 VII, 10 | and good in respect of character. Further, a man has practical 74 VIII, 1 | which are human and involve character and feeling, e.g. whether 75 VIII, 3 | pleasure; it is not for their character that men love ready-witted 76 VIII, 5 | in respect of a state of character, others in respect of an 77 VIII, 5 | feeling, friendship a state of character; for love may be felt just 78 VIII, 5 | springs from a state of character; and men wish well to those 79 VIII, 5 | as a result of a state of character. And in loving a friend 80 VIII, 11| their feelings and their character. Like this, too, is the 81 VIII, 12| educated are more akin in character; and the test of time has 82 VIII, 13| essential element of virtue and character.~ 83 IX, 3 | pretended to love us for our character. For, as we said at the 84 IX, 3 | was being loved for his character, when the other person was 85 IX, 3 | the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch 86 IX, 10 | based on virtue and on the character of our friends themselves, 87 IX, 11 | tactful, since he knows our character and the things that please 88 IX, 11 | fortunes (for the beneficent character is a noble one), but summon