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“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ix. 16.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 264c585adc7805a7f8542937d44d8d59183ef82137d0bc78c22bf87196a3ad48
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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