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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