"Not to get what you have set..." - Quote by Aristotle
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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“One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.”
“So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.”
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”