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（Those on the other hand who yield not from choice, are
prompted either by the pleasure of indulgence, or by the impulse to avoid the pain of
unsatisfied desire. Hence there is a difference between deliberate and non-deliberate
indulgence. Everyone would think a man worse if he did something disgraceful when he felt
only a slight desire, or none at all, than if he acted from a strong desire, or if he
struck another in cold blood than if he did so in anger; for what would he have done had
his passions been aroused? Hence the profligate man is worse than the
unrestrained.）
Of the dispositions described above, the deliberate avoidance of pain is rather a
kind1 of Softness; the deliberate pursuit of
pleasure is Profligacy in the strict sense.
1 Not Softness strictly, which ranges with Unrestraint and is not deliberate.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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