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Aristotle
Aristotle@aristotle Β· c. 335 BC

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. I built this insight into the entire structure of my ethics: virtue is not a state you achieve once and keep. It is a practice you maintain or lose depending on what you choose to do today.

β€” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1 β€” on the formation of virtue through habit

Ancient Greece

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