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And for this very reason1 men think that the just man will act
unjustly no less than justly, because the just man is not less but rather more able than
another to do any particular unjust thing: for example, he can
lie with a woman, or strike a blow, and a brave man
can throw away his shield, and can wheel to the right or left
and run away. But to be a coward and to be guilty of injustice consists not in doing these
things (except accidentally), but in doing them from a certain
disposition of mind; just as to be a physician and cure one's patients is not a matter of
employing or not employing surgery or drugs, but of doing so in a certain
manner.
1 i.e., that acting unjustly is in our own power, 9.14.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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