We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, t…

Aristotle
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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything. ✨ Aristotle, Roger Crisp (2000). Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, p.196, Cambridge University Press
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