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“The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.”
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- Source:
- Aristotle. xiii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1268daee4769054a27b0c256eec053165d96ac3a991c6a5ea18feb12ec227505
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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