“Every art, and every system, and in like manner every action and purpose aims, it is thought, at some good; for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the good is, ‘that at which all things aim.’”

—  Aristotle

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

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