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‘And also the opposite characters to these are equally prone to wrong-doing in cases where the pain or loss is for the moment (ἤδη), and the pleasure and profit later and more lasting: for this is the character of the ἐγκρατεῖς, those that have acquired the habit of self-control, and of the wiser sort (men of more practical wisdom, φρόνησις), who pursue them in this order’.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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