Nicomachean Ethics, Book Two (tr. W. D. Ross, 1925)
The book opens with
No moral virtue arises in us by nature
Their wordsFrom this it is also plain that none of the moral virtues arises in us by nature; for nothing that exists by nature can form a habit contrary to its nature.
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