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By needs I mean longings, especially
for things the failure to obtain which is accompanied by pain; such are the
desires, for instance, love; also those which arise in bodily sufferings and
dangers, for when a man is in pain or danger he desires something. That is why
those who help a man who is poor or an exile, even if the service be ever so
small, are regarded with favor owing to the urgency and occasion of the need;
for instance, the man who gave the mat1
to another in the Lyceum.
1 Probably given to a beggar or vagrant who had nothing to sleep on.
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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