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Those
who either are, or seem to be, highly prosperous do not think they are likely to
suffer anything;
wherefore
they are insolent, contemptuous, and rash, and what makes them such is wealth,
strength, a number of friends, power. It is the same with those who think that
they have already suffered all possible ills and are coldly indifferent to the
future, like those who are being beaten to death; for it is a necessary
incentive to fear that there should remain some hope of being saved from the
cause of their distress. A sign of this is that fear makes men deliberate,
whereas no one deliberates about things that are hopeless.
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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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