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But1 not
only are the virtues both generated and fostered on the one hand, and destroyed on the
other, from and by the same actions, but they will also find their full exercise in the
same actions. This is clearly the case with the other more visible qualities, such as
bodily strength: for strength is produced by taking much food and undergoing much
exertion, while also it is the strong man who will be able to eat most food and endure
most exertion.
1 We here resume from the end of chap. 1. The preceding paragraphs, repeating from Bk. 1. the caution as to method, and introducing the doctrine of the Mean, which is to be developed below, are parenthetical.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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