Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9, chapter 9, section 8

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[8] We must not argue from a vicious and corrupt life, or one that is painful, for such a life is indefinite, like its attributes.¹ （The point as to pain will be clearer in the sequel.²）

1 i.e., vice and pain.

2 Bk. 10.1-5.

Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.

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