An idea from Nicomachean Ethics

Virtue means excellence, and in people it comes in two kinds. Excellence of mind grows from teaching, and excellence of character grows from habit. Throw a stone upward 10,000 times and it will never learn to rise, but people are built to take on habits.

From Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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