Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; s…

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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ✨ Nicomachean Ethics.
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