If, then, as is asserted, the virtues are voluntary (for we are ourselves somehow partly responsible for our states of character, and it is by being persons of a certain kind that we assume the end to be so and so), the vices also will be voluntary;
Orduan, esan bezala, bertuteak borondatezkoak badira (izan ere, gu geure azturen eragile-kideak gara nolabait, eta nolabaitekoak izateagatik helburu jakin bat hartzen dugu), bizioak ere izango dira borondatezkoak, (25) haiei dagokienez berdin gertatzen baita.