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For the starting-point or first principle is the fact that a thing is so; if this be
satisfactorily ascertained, there will be no need also to know the reason why it is so.
And the man of good moral training knows first principles already, or can easily acquire
them. As for the person who neither knows nor can learn, let him hear the words of
Hesiod1: “
Best is the man who can himself advise;
He too is good who hearkens to the wise;
But who, himself being witless, will not heed
Another's wisdom, is a fool indeed.
”
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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