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by jhncls 1851 days ago
It's a quote from Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926)

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle#Misattributed

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I did not know who did that. Thanks! I knew it was misattributed, but was really just a "cliff's notes" of a speech ARIS-stot-ly made.

I have never really cared who said it. It's a great quote.