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Aristotle

384–322 BCEGreek philosophyAncient (before 200 BCE)Person

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, who founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens. His works range across logic, science, politics and ethics; the Nicomachean Ethics explores virtue as a settled habit and a mean between extremes.

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Works

Nicomachean Ethics

Quotes (3)

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Will Durant (often misattributed to Aristotle), The Story of Philosophy (1926), summarising Aristotle; listed as misattributed on Wikiquote
MisattributedsourceMaxim: Do your work wholeheartedly and with skill.
“Virtue then is in a sense a mean state, since it certainly has an aptitude for aiming at the mean.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, ch. 6, tr. D. P. Chase
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VerifiedsourceMaxim: Seek the middle way; avoid extremes.Translation: public-domain translation (Chase)
“the Brave man chooses his line and withstands danger either because to do so is honourable, or because not to do so is base.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III, tr. D. P. Chase
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Do what is right, even when you are afraid.Translation: public-domain translation (Chase)