"Self-sufficiency is both a good and an..." - Quote by Aristotle
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
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“We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.”
“That which is excellent endures.”
“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”
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“All things are already complete in oneself.”
“My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.”
“A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.”
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“To seek the highest good is to live well.”
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
“Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.”