“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
― Nicomachean Ethics
― Nicomachean Ethics
“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
Miranda’s 2025 Year in Books
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