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They do not however appear to value honor for its own
sake, but for something incidental to it. Most people like receiving honor from men of
high station, because they hope for something from
them: they think that if they want something, the great man will be able to give it them;
so they enjoy being honored by him as a token of benefits to come. Those on the other hand
who covet being honored by good men, and by persons who know them, do so from a desire to
confirm their own opinion of themselves; so1 these like
honor because they are assured of their worth by their confidence in the judgement of
those who assert it. Affection on the other hand men like for its own sake; from which we
infer that it is more valuable than honor, and that friendship is desirable in itself.
1 Or possibly ‘so what they really enjoy is being assured,’ etc.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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