Virtue Is Painful, Virtue Is Pleasant

If you become habitually unvirtuous, virtue becomes painful, while vice, on the hand, becomes pleasant. We must take as a sign of states of character the pleasure or pain that ensues on acts. The man who abstains from bodily pleasures and delights in this very fact, is temperate. While the man who is annoyed at it is self indulgent. And he or she who stands his or her ground against things that are terrible and delight in this, or at least is not pained, is brave. For moral excellence is concerned with the pleasures and pains. It is on account of the pleasure that we do bad things,. On account of the pain that we