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“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions” quote by Aristotle — Download Open image

“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions”

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