You become a builder by building. Good by doing good.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1
You become a builder by building. Good by doing good.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1
The source
"You become a builder by building. Good by doing good." Aristotle said it in Nicomachean Ethics 2.1. Translated by F. H. Peters, 1881.
"we become builders by building, and harpers by harping. And so by doing just acts we become just"F. H. Peters, 1881, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1.
Who said it
Aristotle (384–322 BC). Plato's student and Alexander's tutor, who wrote on virtue as a practiced habit.
Questions
- Who said "You become a builder by building. Good by doing good."?
- Aristotle (384–322 BC). Source: Nicomachean Ethics 2.1.
- What is the original wording?
- we become builders by building, and harpers by harping. And so by doing just acts we become just (F. H. Peters, 1881). Translated by F. H. Peters, 1881.
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