Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
AristotleIn a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
Aristotle[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.
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