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[4]
For it is the
nature of the many to be amenable to fear but not to a sense of honor, and to abstain from
evil not because of its baseness but because of the penalties it entails; since, living as
they do by passion, they pursue the pleasures akin to their nature, and the things that
will procure those pleasures, and avoid the opposite pains, but have not even a notion of
what is noble and truly pleasant, having never tasted true pleasure.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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