Will Durant: Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
- Source
- From the book The Story of Philosophy, Simon & Schuster, 1926, chapter on Aristotle
- Often credited to
- Often attributed to Aristotle.
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