It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible…

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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). ✨ Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).
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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). ✨ Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

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