If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.
Aristotle...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
AristotleMen are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
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