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Pity is also aroused by signs and
actions, such as the dress of those who have suffered, and all such objects, and
the words and everything else that concerns those who are actually suffering,
for instance, at the point of death. And when men show themselves undaunted1 at such critical times it is
specially pitiable; for all these things,2 because they
come immediately under our observation, increase the feeling of pity, both
because the sufferer does not seem to deserve his fate, and because the
suffering is before our eyes.
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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