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“Virtue has for its object-matter pleasures and pains, because by reason of pleasure we do what is bad, and by reason of pain decline doing what is right.”
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Section 2·384-322 BCE
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Aristotle
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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy
Greek philosopher and polymath.
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