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Such a life as this however will be higher than the human level:1 not in virtue of his
humanity will a man achieve it, but in virtue of something within him that is divine; and
by as much as this something is superior to his composite nature, by so much is its
activity superior to the exercise of the other forms of virtue. If then the intellect is
something divine in comparison with man, so is the life of the intellect divine in
comparison with human life. Nor ought we to obey those who enjoin that a man should have
man's thoughts2 and a mortal
the thoughts of mortality,3 but we ought so far as possible to achieve immortality,
and do all that man may to live in accordance with the highest thing in him; for though
this be small in bulk, in power and value it far surpasses all the rest.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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