Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by d…

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ✨ Nichomachean Ethics. Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ✨ Nichomachean Ethics. Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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