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Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

 

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

 

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

 

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

 
 

The gods too are fond of a joke.

 

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

 

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

 

We are what we repeatedly do.

 
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