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Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle (trans. W. D. Ross)
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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”— Nicomachean Ethics, Book I.1 (1094a), trans. W. D. Ross
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