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[3]
In
respect of pleasures and pains—not all of them, and to a less degree in respect
of pains1—the observance of the mean is Temperance, the excess
Profligacy. Men deficient in the enjoyment of pleasures scarcely occur, and hence this
character also has not been assigned a name, but we may call it Insensible.
1 This parenthesis looks like an interpolation from 3.10.1.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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