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And when the unjust acts are real gains
and the only punishment is disgrace; and when, on the contrary, the unjust acts
tend to our credit, for instance, if one avenges father or mother, as was the
case with Zeno,1 while the punishment only involves loss of money,
exile, or something of the kind. For men do wrong from both these motives and in
both these conditions of mind; but the persons are not the same, and their
characters are exactly opposite.2
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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