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Again （b, d） one who does and pursues what is pleasant from conviction
and choice,1 might be held to be a better man than one who acts
in the same way not from calculation but from unrestraint, because he is more easy to
cure, since he may be persuaded to alter his conviction; whereas the unrestrained man
comes under the proverb that says ‘when water chokes you, what are you to drink
to wash it down?’ Had he been convinced that what he does is right, a change of
conviction might have caused him to desist; but as it is he is convinced that he ought to
do one thing and nevertheless does another thing.2
1 i.e., a profligate. This is another sophistic paradox based on the contradiction between （1） the identification of the unrestrained man with the profligate, and （2） the view （2.6） that the former acts contrary to his deliberate conviction （so Burnet）.
2 A variant οὐ πεπεισμένος . . . [ἀλλὰ] gives ‘but as it is he is convinced it is wrong but nevertheless does it.’
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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