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“If
self-control is a virtue, abstinence is also a virtue.”
“If a guardian should be required to be faithful to
his trust, so should an agent.” To this class belongs
the type of argument called ἐπαγωγή by the Greeks,
induction by Cicero.1 Or arguments may be drawn
from unlikes: “It does not follow that if joy is a
good thing, pleasure also is a good thing”: “It
does not follow that what applies to the case of a
woman applies also to the case of a ward.” Or
from contraries: “Frugality is a good thing, since
luxury is an evil thing”: “If war is the cause of
ill, peace will prove a remedy”: “If he who does
harm unwittingly deserves pardon, he who does
good unwittingly does not deserve a reward.”
1 de Inv. i. 31.
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