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Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher, 384 BC–322 BC. Explained quotes and 1 wrongly credited to them.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
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About Aristotle
Aristotle studied under Plato in Athens for twenty years, tutored the young Alexander the Great, and founded his own school, the Lyceum. He wrote on almost everything: logic, ethics, politics, biology, physics, poetry and rhetoric, and his works shaped Western and Islamic thought for two thousand years.
His surviving writings are mostly lecture notes, compressed and technical, so many smooth, modern-sounding “Aristotle quotes” are actually later summaries of his ideas by other writers.