"...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement...."

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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath from Stagira. He studied at Plato's Academy and later founded the Lyceum in Athens, where he developed major works in logic, ethics, politics, and natural science.

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