Why, did not I ask you to tell me the nature of virtue as a whole?
Do they seem to you to be teachers of virtue?
Then must we not first know the nature of virtue?
The source of virtue was work on the land, a close relationship with the earth.
Would you call one of them virtue and the other vice?
Now it's time to talk about some of the virtues.
None of its virtues come to mind, but there must be some.
But the measure of virtue doesn't end with private behavior.
The person becomes what he or she can become by practice of the virtues.
One of his great virtues was that he never had to be told anything twice.