Philosophical contemplation: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653
"Just as a piece of land has to be prepared beforehand if it is to nourish the seed, so the mind of the pupil has to be prepared in its habits if it is to enjoy and dislike the right things"
- Aristotle
Book X: Pleasure and the life of happiness
The Nicomachean Ethics
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