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Quotation from The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
“we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit”
The Story of Philosophy, Chapter II (Aristotle), section on ethics (Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, revised second edition (Simon & Schuster, 1933), as scanned at the Internet Archive (dli.ernet.912); copyrighted)
Durant's own summary of Aristotle's view that virtue is formed by practice; the line is often misattributed to Aristotle.
Citation: "we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit" — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Chapter II (Aristotle), section on ethics (Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, revised second edition (Simon & Schuster, 1933), as scanned at the Internet Archive (dli.ernet.912); copyrighted). (id durant-the-story-of-philosophy-q2)
