An idea from Nicomachean Ethics

A just act done by luck doesn’t make you just. You have to choose it for its own sake, from a settled character. Stopping at theory is “behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do”.

From Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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