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Chrysippus also says, that the virtues follow one
another, and that not only he who has one has all, but also
that he who acts according to any one of them acts according to them all; and he affirms, that there is not any
man perfect who is not possessed of all the virtues, nor
any action perfect to the doing of which all the virtues do
not concur. But yet in his Sixth Book of Moral Questions
he says, that a good man does not always act valiantly, nor
a vicious man always fearfully; for certain objects being
presented to the fancies, the one must persist in his judgments, and the other depart from them; and he says that
it is not probable a wicked man should be always indulging
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his lust. If then to act valiantly is the same thing as
to use fortitude; and to act timorously as to yield to fear,
they cannot but speak contradictions who say, that he who
is possessed of either virtue or vice acts at the same time
according to all the virtues or all the vices, and yet that a
valiant man does not always act valiantly nor a vicious man
timorously.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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