...it is more characteristic of virtue to do good than to have good done to one, and more characteristic to do what is noble than not to do what is base; and it is not hard to see that giving implies doing good and doing what is noble, and taking implies having good done to one or not acting basely.- The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, translated by Sir David Ross
One is not good simply by doing no evil. At least it is not virtuous simply not to be doing evil. One could conceivably be doing nothing but lying about, eating and sleeping (though according to some that might be quite enough like 'doing evil'). People who do not do evil may simply not have the opportunity or inclination to do it and that means nothing to whether they could resist temptation when it butted its ugly head.
A man who is virtuous is likely to be able to resist temptation; he has a strengthened will, strengthened by the exercise that doing-good is. He is a man who could be trusted to be able to do what is needed - a man you can really depend on - because clearly he has been able to defy his whims already.
Of course some people appear to do good things who find it easy to do them; who do not have to ‘mortify the flesh’ to do those things. So, as with courage where you must be afraid to be able to be brave, so with virtue you must be reluctant to do whatever good you must do for it even to be virtue, and for the doing of it to produce a change in you- to strengthen you into greater resolve later.
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