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Let us assume good to be whatever is desirable
for its own sake, or for the sake of which we choose something else; that which
is the aim of all things, or of all things that possess sensation or reason; or
would be, if they could acquire the latter. Whatever reason might assign to each
and whatever reason does assign to each in individual cases, that is good for
each; and that whose presence makes a man fit and also independent; and
independence in general; and that which produces or preserves such things, or on
which such things follow, or all that is likely to prevent or destroy their
opposites.
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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