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（iii） But in relation to the pleasures and pains of touch and taste,
and the corresponding desires and acts of avoidance, which have already1 been defined as the sphere in which
Profligacy and Temperance are displayed, it is possible on the one hand to have such a
disposition as to succumb even to those temptations to which most men are superior, or on
the other hand to conquer even those to which most men succumb. These two dispositions,
when manifested in relation to pleasure, constitute Unrestraint and Restraint
respectively; when in relation to pain, Softness and Endurance. The disposition of the
great majority of men lies between the two, though they incline rather to the worse
extremes.
1 Bk. 3.10.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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