Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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