This chapter discusses Hume's appropriation of one of the most central elements of Aristotle's ethics, the distinction between true virtue and mere continence. The way of making sense of the phenomena at issue that is given to us by Hume turns on his conception of good character. When properly understood, Hume's criterion of virtue allows us to make sense of the moral phenomena that neo-Aristotelians are unable to accommodate. On Hume's account, greatness of mind is the virtue of strength of mind (what philosophers of another bent might call strength of will) exercised in the service of virtue. The chapter closes with a few quick reflections about the relationship between character traits and other practical dispositions within the Aristotelian paradigm and the Humean one. Hursthouse and Foot assimilate apparently problem cases to the Aristotelian paradigm on the thought that there is a clear enough distinction.