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Virtue is not only the duty, but (by the laws of the Moral Government of the World) also the interest of Man, or to express it in Bishop Butler’s manner, Conscience and Reasonable self-love are the two principles in our nature which of right have supremacy over the rest, and these two lead in point of fact the same course of action.

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Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, 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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