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It is pleasant to bestow and to receive
benefits; the latter is the attainment of what we desire,
the former the possession of more than
sufficient means,1 both of them things that men
desire. Since it is pleasant to do good, it must also be pleasant for men to set
their neighbors on their feet, and to supply their deficiencies.
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1 Or, “larger means than the person benefited.”
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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