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The greatest virtues are necessarily
those which are most useful to others, if virtue is the faculty of conferring
benefits. For this reason justice and courage are the most esteemed, the latter
being useful to others in war, the former in peace as well. Next is liberality,
for the liberal spend freely and do not dispute the possession of wealth, which
is the chief object of other men's desire.
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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