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[7]
Persons therefore who are exceptionally
zealous in noble actions are universally approved and commended; and if all men vied with
each other in moral nobility and strove to perform the noblest deeds, the common welfare
would be fully realized, while individuals also could enjoy the greatest of goods,
inasmuch as virtue is the greatest good.
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit
himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of
self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his
neighbors.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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