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Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Aristotle
Locator: Book II, Chapter 1
Edition or translation: W. D. Ross (1925)

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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