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Now, all human actions are
either the result of man's efforts or not. Of the latter some are due to chance,
others to necessity. Of those due to necessity, some are to be attributed to
compulsion, others to nature, so that the things which men do not do of
themselves are all the result of chance, nature, or compulsion. As for those
which they do of themselves and of which they are the cause,
some are the result of habit, others of
longing, and of the latter some are due to rational, others to irrational
longing.
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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