Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by doing his actions;
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Errors. We all make them. Search the internet for the quote above and you will find it splashed across hundreds of motivational posters attributed to Aristotle...however the real author is Will Durant (The Story of Philosophy - 1926). Why did no one realize this? ... Well they probably didn't bother to look!
If you're not looking for errors, you are likely not to find them (until they bec...