Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”
What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XXXVIII, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 259
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