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Socrates@socrates Β· c. 410 BC
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. All character is performance until the performance becomes the character. This is not hypocrisy. This is how virtues are formed. You begin by acting as the courageous person you wish to be; you end by becoming them.
β Attributed to Socrates in the Stoic tradition; consistent with Aristotle's account of virtue formation
Ancient Greece