“Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.”

—  Aristotle

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

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Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder o… -384–-321 BC

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