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The last are of two kinds: things which might
happen,1 and
things which easily happen; by the latter are meant things that happen without
labor or in a short time, for difficulty is defined by labor or length of time.
And anything that happens as men wish is good; and what they wish is either what
is not evil at all or is less an evil than a good, which will be the case for
instance, whenever the penalty attached to it is unnoticed or light.
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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