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[9]
But no doubt it makes a great difference
whether we conceive the Supreme Good to depend on possessing virtue or on displaying
it—on disposition, or on the manifestation of a disposition in action. For a man
may possess the disposition without its producing any good result, as for instance when he is
asleep, or has ceased to function from some other cause; but virtue in active exercise
cannot be inoperative—it will of necessity act, and act well. And just as at the
Olympic games the wreaths of victory are not bestowed upon the handsomest and strongest
persons present, but on men who enter for the competitions—since it is among
these that the winners are found,—so it is those who act rightly
who carry off the prizes and good things of life.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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