For all human beings have from nature inclinations toward virtue and, according to Cleanthes, are like half lines of iambic verse; hence, if they remain incomplete they are base, but if they are completed they are virtuous.
The Stoics also say that the wise man does everything in accordance with all the virtues; for his every action is perfect and so is bereft of none of the virtues.
IMAGE: Dai Jin, Employing Virtue (c. 1450)
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