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Confidence is inspired by the remoteness of fearful
things,
or by the nearness of things that justify
it.1 If remedies are possible, if there are means
of help, either great or numerous, or both; if we have neither committed nor
suffered wrong if we have no rivals at all, or only such as are powerless, or,
if they have power, are our friends, or have either done us good or have
received it from us; if those whose interests are the same as ours are more
numerous, or stronger, or both.
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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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