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Well: human Excellence is of two kinds, Intellectual and Moral: now the Intellectual springs originally, and is increased subsequently, from teaching (for the most part that is), and needs therefore experience and time; whereas the Moral comes from custom, and so the Greek term denoting it is but a slight deflection from the term denoting custom in that language.

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Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Section 1·384-322 BCE

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Aristotle

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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy

Greek philosopher and polymath.

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