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Now if discourses on ethics were sufficient in themselves to make men virtuous,
‘large fees and many’ (as Theognis1 says) ‘would they
win,’ quite rightly, and to provide such discourses would be all that is wanted.
But as it is, we see that although theories have power to stimulate and encourage generous
youths, and, given an inborn nobility of character and a genuine love of what is noble,
can make them susceptible to the influence of virtue, yet they are powerless to stimulate
the mass of mankind to moral nobility.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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