"We're what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" may have been attributed to Aristotle to lend it more gravitas.

A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander. Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: Plato devoted three books to ...

Professor Nichols studies Greek political philosophy, the history of political thought, and “politics, literature and film,” including ... Piety and Politics in Aristote’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (Notre ...

Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (d. 323 BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Greek means something like “free speech” or “full expression ...

For years, the alleged words of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle purporting to define excellence as a practice have circulated on the internet. "We're what we repeatedly do," the supposed quote ...