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And, speaking generally, the opposite of what our enemies desire or of that in
which they rejoice, appears to be advantageous; wherefore it was well said: “
Of a truth Priam would exult.1
” This is not always the case, but only as a general rule, for there is
nothing to prevent one and the same thing being sometimes advantageous to two
opposite parties; hence it is said that misfortune brings men together, when a
common danger threatens them.
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1 Hom. Il.1.255. The words are those of Nestor to Achilles and Agamemnon, in which he points out how their enemies would rejoice if they heard all the story of their quarrel.
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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