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The doer's achievement therefore remains, for nobility or beauty is long-lived, but its
utility to the recipient passes away.1 But while the actuality of the present, the hope of
the future, and the memory of the past are all pleasant, actuality is the most pleasant of
the three, and the most loved. Also whereas the memory of noble things is pleasant, that
of useful ones is hardly at all so, or at least less so; although with anticipation the
reverse seems to be the case.
Again, loving seems to be an active experience,
being loved a passive one; hence affection and the various forms of friendly feeling are
naturally found in the more active party to the relationship.
1 This sentence in the MSS. follows the next.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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