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[9]
Now one of
their arguments proves that Folly combined with Unrestraint is a virtue. It runs as
follows: if a man is foolish and also unrestrained, owing to his unrestraint he does the
opposite of what he believes that he ought to do; but he believes1 that good things are bad, and that he
ought not to do them; therefore he will do good things and not bad ones.
1 Sc., because he is foolish.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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