evidence: FACT CHECK: Did Aristotle Say, ‘We Are What We Repeatedly Do’? An image shared on Facebook claims that Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, once stated, "We are what we repeatedly do. [...] In Book II of "Nicomachean Ethics," he states: "Excellence, then, being of these two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual excellence owes its birth and growth mainly to instruction, and so requires time and experience, while moral excellence is the result of habit or custom."