1088 – “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

-Will Durant [Widely misattributed to Aristotle, See Source Notes]

Quote Number: 765

Source: Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers. Simon & Schuster: New York. 1991. Pg 76.

Source Notes: In the source Will Durant is summarizing a section of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, rather than being an authentic Aristotle quote.

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