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[8]
This then is one cause, arising out of the thing itself. The other cause
has its origin in us: those things appear more contrary to the mean to which we are
ourselves more inclined by nature. For example, we are of ourselves more inclined to
pleasure, which is why we are prone to Profligacy [more than to
Propriety].1 We therefore rather call those things the contrary of
the mean, into which we are more inclined to lapse; and hence Profligacy, the excess, is
more particularly the contrary of Temperance
1 These words are probably an interpolation, since the sense requires ‘more than to Insensibility’.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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