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Full Idea
If our discussion is right, virtue is acquired neither by nature nor by teaching. Whoever has it gets it by divine dispensation, without taking thought.
Clarification
'Virtue' here is the Greek word 'areté', which also translates as 'excellence'
Gist of Idea
It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift
Source
Plato (Meno [c.376 BCE], 99e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Protagoras and Meno', ed/tr. Guthrie,W K C [Penguin 1956], p.156