

“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

“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

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
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