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But （i） perhaps princes and potentates are not good evidence. Virtue
and intelligence, which are the sources of man's higher activities, do not depend on the
possession of power; and if these persons, having no taste fo pure and liberal pleasure, have recourse to the pleasures of the
body, we must not on that account suppose that bodily pleasures are the more desirable.
Children imagine that the things they themselves value are actually the best; it is not
surprising therefore that, as children and grown men have different standards of value, so
also should the worthless and the virtuous. <
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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