Essential Aristotle

sozousa tan phronsin

this alone is lacking even to God,
To make undone things that have once been done.)

The origin of action—its efficient, not its final cause—is choice, and that of choice is desire and reasoning with a view to an end.

What affirmation and negation are in thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in desire; so that since moral virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, and choice is deliberate desire, therefore both the reasoning must be true and the desire right, if the choice is to be good,

Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.

Chapter 1:(c) In friendship in which the motives on the two sides are different.