Full Idea
He who makes moral progress to the highest degree performs all the appropriate actions in all circumstances, and omits none.
Gist of Idea
The highest degree of morality performs all that is appropriate, omitting nothing
Source
Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]), quoted by Sophocles - Sophocles' Electra 4.39.22
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.157
A Reaction
Hence concerns about omission as well as commission in the practice of ethics can be seen in the light of character and virtue. The world is fully of nice people who act well, but don't do so well on omissions. Car drivers, for example.