“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
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In "The Nicomachean Ethics" Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness or "eudaimonia"
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“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
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“Philosophy can make people sick.”
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“A man without regrets cannot be cured.”
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“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”
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“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
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“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
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“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”
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