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It is necessary then,
if possible, that the service should be in the same direction1; if not, that it should apply
to cases of similar or greater need.
Since then it is evident on what occasions,2 for
what reasons, and in what frame of mind a feeling of benevolence arises, it is
clear that we must derive our arguments from this—to show that the one
side either has been, or still is, in such pain or need, and that the other has
rendered, or is rendering, such a service in such a time of need.
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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