When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
AristotleThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleTherefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.
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