I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.Charles Van Doren
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Charles Van Doren
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
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