Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is…

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ✨ Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ✨ Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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