“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“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
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
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