Sunday, March 15, 2026

Aristotle

 

Aristotle (c. 384-322)

“Virtue consists more in doing good than in receiving it, and more in doing fine actions than in refraining from disgraceful ones.”

  • From The Nicomachean Ethics (Bekker number 1120a) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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