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1001 IV, 1 | excess in giving, so that he leaves too little for himself;
1002 V, 10 | equitable is just, but not the legally just but a correction of
1003 I, 2 | sciences, and since, again, it legislates as to what we are to do
1004 VI, 8 | household management, another legislation, the third politics, and
1005 VII, 5 | or in human flesh, or in lending their children to one another
1006 V, 10 | rule used in making the Lesbian moulding; the rule adapts
1007 V, 1 | the greater, but also the less-in the case of things bad absolutely;
1008 III, 3 | deliberation, e.g. about the letters of the alphabet (for we
1009 V, 2 | loan for use, depositing, letting (they are called voluntary
1010 IV, 7 | boaster); as one man is a liar because he enjoys the lie
1011 VIII, 10| is weak and every one has licence to do as he pleases.~
1012 I, 5 | with being asleep, or with lifelong inactivity, and, further,
1013 VII, 7 | cloak to avoid the pain of lifting it, and plays the invalid
1014 I, 11 | others are, as it were, lighter, so too there are differences
1015 IX, 4 | extreme of friendship is likened to one’s love for oneself.~
1016 I, 13 | For exactly as paralysed limbs when we intend to move them
1017 VII, 5 | types of habit is beyond the limits of vice, as brutishness
1018 V, 4 | the intermediate. Let the lines AA’, BB’, CC’ be equal to
1019 III, 10 | were there; nor does the lion delight in the lowing of
1020 I, 13 | shares in it, in so far as it listens to and obeys it; this is
1021 VII, 5 | with the slave who ate the liver of his fellow), and others
1022 IX, 7 | therefore as, in the case of loans, debtors wish their creditors
1023 I, 6 | place, i.e. of the right locality and the like), clearly it
1024 VIII, 5 | those who are asleep or locally separated are not performing,
1025 V, 1 | and for that with which we lock a door. Let us take as a
1026 II, 5 | friendly feeling, hatred, longing, emulation, pity, and in
1027 IX, 5 | only does so when he also longs for him when absent and
1028 I, 8 | characteristics that are looked for in happiness seem also,
1029 V, 4 | own and that they neither lose nor gain.~Therefore the
1030 IV, 5 | if they are present in a low degree, more if in a higher
1031 I, 8 | lack of which takes the lustre from happiness, as good
1032 III, 11 | says) if he is young and lusty; but not every one craves
1033 II, 6 | character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e. the mean
1034 II, 1 | lyre that both good and bad lyre-players are produced. And the corresponding
1035 II, 1 | builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so
1036 VII, 6 | natural norm, as, among men, madmen are. Now brutishness is
1037 V, 6 | and becomes a tyrant. The magistrate on the other hand is the
1038 IV, 2 | work has an excellence-viz. magnificence-which involves magnitude. Magnificence
1039 IV, 2 | producing, to produce it magnificently (for such a result is not
1040 VI, 10 | the science of spatial magnitudes. For understanding is neither
1041 I, 10 | turn out ill they crush and maim happiness; for they both
1042 I, 9 | shared; for all who are not maimed as regards their potentiality
1043 VI, 8 | as well as in that of the major premiss there will be a
1044 VII, 7 | the female sex from the male.~The lover of amusement,
1045 IV, 3 | be bad (for they are not malicious), but only mistaken. For
1046 VII, 4 | continent and the temperate man-but not any of these other types-because
1047 IV, 2 | name of the magnificent man-his bigness, as it were-is manifested,
1048 VI, 5 | do this who are good at managing households or states. (This
1049 III, 12 | degree from its particular manifestations; for it is itself painless,
1050 IV, 3 | of themselves, and that manifestly; for, not being worthy of
1051 IX, 7 | potentiality, his handiwork manifests in activity.~At the same
1052 I, 5 | contemplative life. Now the mass of mankind are evidently quite slavish
1053 VII, 3 | difference between these manners of knowing, so that to know
1054 VI, 8 | these alone "do things" as manual labourers "do things".~Practical
1055 VII, 14 | they go out of their way to manufacture thirsts somehow for themselves.
1056 I, 10 | Priam.~Nor, again, is he many-coloured and changeable; for neither
1057 VI, 7 | respect, as Homer says in the Margites,~Him did the gods make neither
1058 V, 5 | just. These having been marked off from each other, it
1059 V, 7 | wholesale and smaller in retail markets. Similarly, the things which
1060 IX, 2 | people seem in fact to do; to marriages they invite their kinsfolk;
1061 I, 5 | contemplative life. Now the mass of mankind are evidently
1062 VIII, 10| Democracy is found chiefly in masterless dwellings (for here every
1063 III, 3 | deliberates, e.g. about the material universe or the incommensurability
1064 III, 10 | because he is going to make a meal of it. Temperance and self-indulgence,
1065 VI, 7 | if a man knew that light meats are digestible and wholesome,
1066 V, 4 | states they call judges mediators, on the assumption that
1067 IV, 2 | in purple, as they do at Megara. And all such things he
1068 V, 1 | relation to other men and a member of a society. For this same
1069 IX, 4 | with pleasure, since the memories of his past acts are delightful
1070 V, 3 | uses one term as two and mentions it twice; e.g. "as the line
1071 IX, 6 | constant and not at the mercy of opposing currents like
1072 V, 6 | share is proportional to his merits-so that it is for others that
1073 III, 1 | one’s son was an enemy, as Merope did, or that a pointed spear
1074 IX, 1 | his excess of love is not met by love in return though
1075 V, 11 | put to death the enemy.)~Metaphorically and in virtue of a certain
1076 III, 8 | and~ For Hector one day "mid the Trojans shall utter
1077 IX, 8 | pleasure to a long one of mild enjoyment, a twelvemonth
1078 II, 6 | too little—too little for Milo, too much for the beginner
1079 V, 7 | prisoner’s ransom shall be a mina, or that a goat and not
1080 VIII, 6 | is for the commercially minded. People who are supremely
1081 IV, 3 | him is great. Nor is he mindful of wrongs; for it is not
1082 VI, 13 | virtue; for the one deter, mines the end and the other makes
1083 VIII, 1 | it aids older people by ministering to their needs and supplementing
1084 V, 8 | reasonable expectation, it is a misadventure. When (2) it is not contrary
1085 IV, 1 | called by such names as "miserly", "close", "stingy", all
1086 IX, 11 | the saying "enough is my misfortune". We should summon friends
1087 VII, 6 | argument to some extent, but to mishear it, as do hasty servants
1088 IX, 10 | who have many friends and mix intimately with them all
1089 II, 7 | that which understates is mock modesty and the person characterized
1090 II, 7 | which understates is mock modesty and the person characterized
1091 III, 6 | city-states and at the courts of monarchs. Properly, then, he will
1092 VII, 1 | not, he,~The child of a mortal man, but as one that of
1093 III, 11 | self-indulgent man enjoys most-but rather dislikes them-nor
1094 IX, 1 | the things that formed the motives of their love; for each
1095 IX, 12 | each other they take the mould of the characteristics they
1096 V, 10 | used in making the Lesbian moulding; the rule adapts itself
1097 IX, 10 | happy with one friend and to mourn with another. Presumably,
1098 IX, 11 | is not himself given to mourning; but women and womanly men
1099 VII, 5 | everything, even the squeak of a mouse, is cowardly with a brutish
1100 III, 1 | it slipped out of their mouths as they were speaking",
1101 VII, 6 | what one says, and then muddle the order, or as dogs bark
1102 IV, 1 | also extends widely, and is multiform, since there seem to be
1103 IX, 9 | vexed at vicious ones, as a musical man enjoys beautiful tunes
1104 II, 4 | they are grammarians and musicians.~Or is this not true even
1105 V, 2 | robbery with violence, mutilation, abuse, insult.~
1106 III, 1 | as Aeschylus said of the mysteries, or a man might say he "
1107 VII, 5 | the hair or of gnawing the nails, or even coals or earth,
1108 II, 7 | The dispositions also are nameless, except that that of the
1109 | namely
1110 VI, 13 | they define virtue, after naming the state of character and
1111 VII, 7 | temperance were formerly narrowed down, it possible to be
1112 I, 2 | godlike to attain it for a nation or for city-states. These,
1113 VII, 14 | activities belonging to a bad nature-either congenital, as in the case
1114 VII, 5 | reason of originally bad natures. This being so, it is possible
1115 I, 11 | less so, it seems a long—nay, an infinite—task to discuss
1116 IV, 3 | and little people may be neat and well-proportioned but
1117 VI, 2 | action.~What affirmation and negation are in thinking, pursuit
1118 IV, 1 | something to give. Nor will he neglect his own property, since
1119 III, 11 | beyond his means. For he who neglects these conditions loves such
1120 I, 11 | must be something weak and negligible, either in itself or for
1121 VII, 1 | both incontinence and soft, ness among things bad and blameworthy;
1122 VII, 14 | to enjoy, and, besides, a neutral state is painful to many
1123 I, 12 | of the soul. But perhaps nicety in these matters is more
1124 VII, 4 | one’s father as Satyrus nicknamed "the filial", who was thought
1125 [Title] | Nicomachean Ethics~
1126 | nine
1127 VII, 4 | excess even in them-if like Niobe one were to fight even against
1128 V, 5 | it has the name "money" (nomisma)-because it exists not by
1129 V, 5 | not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power
1130 VII, 13 | mean to or not, talking nonsense. Now because we need fortune
1131 IV, 3 | deeds, but of great and notable ones. He must also be open
1132 VI, 2 | action is a man. (It is to be noted that nothing that is past
1133 II, 9 | for he does not fail to be noticed. But up to what point and
1134 VII, 3 | know exactly. If, then, the notion is that owing to their weak
1135 VII, 10 | city willed it, that cares nought for laws;~ but the wicked
1136 VII, 9 | if their decisions become null and void as decrees sometimes
1137 VI, 8 | wise, who might at ease,~Numbered among the army’s multitude,~
1138 I, 11 | the events that happen are numerous and admit of all sorts of
1139 I, 13 | that one must assign to all nurslings and to embryos, and this
1140 VIII, 11| greatest good, and for their nurture and upbringing.~These things
1141 I, 13 | however; let us leave the nutritive faculty alone, since it
1142 VI, 12 | fourth part of the soul-the nutritive-there is no such virtue; for there
1143 I, 6 | these matters elsewhere; an objection to what we have said, however,
1144 VII, 1 | for if we both refute the objections and leave the common opinions
1145 VI, 3 | have passed outside our observation, whether they exist or not.
1146 IX, 11 | sorrow. But in all things one obviously ought to imitate the better
1147 III, 11 | occurs. The temperate man occupies a middle position with regard
1148 IX, 12 | life, in that they wish to occupy themselves with their friends;
1149 V, 8 | do not dispute about the occurrence of the act-as in commercial
1150 III, 11 | a name because he hardly occurs. The temperate man occupies
1151 VIII, 13| complaints or quarrels; no one is offended by a man who loves him and
1152 III, 11 | to eat or drink whatever offers itself till one is surfeited
1153 IX, 6 | citizens think that the offices in it should be elective,
1154 V, 10 | share though he has the law oft his side, is equitable,
1155 VII, 13 | the name both because we~oftenest steer our course for them
1156 VIII, 7 | therefore it is for him oily so long as he remains a
1157 VIII, 10| wealth and power, as in oligarchies. The association of brothers
1158 V, 10 | oversimplicity, to correct the omission-to say what the legislator
1159 VII, 6 | wantonness, destructiveness, and omnivorous greed; these have no power
1160 VI, 7 | concerned with universals only-it must also recognize the
1161 III, 8 | indicate the stirring and onset of passion. Now brave men
1162 VII, 3 | appetite is contrary, not the opinion-to the right rule. It also
1163 VII, 2 | results arising from an opponent’s view, in order that they
1164 VIII, 1 | Heraclitus that "it is what opposes that helps" and "from different
1165 I, 10 | virtuous activities or their opposites are what constitute happiness
1166 IX, 10 | many friends as possible, or-as in the case of hospitality
1167 IX, 11 | share as it were our burden, or-without that happening-their presence
1168 III, 3 | whether he shall heal, nor an orator whether he shall persuade,
1169 VI, 12 | i.e. those who do the acts ordained by the laws either unwillingly
1170 I, 2 | nature; for it is this that ordains which of the sciences should
1171 II, 4 | none of the things they are ordered to do. As the latter will
1172 VII, 6 | brutish, and others are due to organic injuries and diseases. Only
1173 II, 2 | sources and causes of their origination and growth the same as those
1174 VIII, 12| their children, and (2) the originator feels his offspring to be
1175 IV, 2 | house is a sort of public ornament), and will spend by preference
1176 VIII, 14| the friendship than the other-not more of the same thing,
1177 VIII, 13| they might have got from others-minimizing the service; while the givers,
1178 VII, 3 | influence of passions; for outbursts of anger and sexual appetites
1179 I, 7 | what has once been well outlined, and that time is a good
1180 IX, 3 | other became better and far outstripped him in virtue, should the
1181 IV, 3 | him, and will be neither over-joyed by good fortune nor over-pained
1182 IV, 3 | over-joyed by good fortune nor over-pained by evil. For not even towards
1183 III, 1 | to the throwing of goods overboard in a storm; for in the abstract
1184 IV, 3 | for wrongs, but rather to overlook them. Nor is he a gossip;
1185 V, 10 | fails us and has erred by oversimplicity, to correct the omission-to
1186 III, 1 | not under pressure which overstrains human nature and which no
1187 IX, 2 | before all others, since we owe our own nourishment to them,
1188 II, 1 | intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth
1189 IV, 7 | both in life and in word, owning to what he has, and neither
1190 VII, 5 | and in addition to these paederasty; for these arise in some
1191 IV, 1 | is pleasant or free from pain-least of all will it be painful.
1192 III, 10 | as colours and shapes and painting, are called neither temperate
1193 IV, 9 | those who fear death turn pale. Both, therefore, seem to
1194 III, 8 | passion and ‘hard he breathed panting" and "his blood boiled".
1195 IV, 7 | not for gain but to avoid parade; and here too it is qualities
1196 I, 10 | before, surely this is a paradox, that when he is happy the
1197 I, 13 | principle. For exactly as paralysed limbs when we intend to
1198 VIII, 1 | Euripides saying that "parched earth loves the rain, and
1199 VIII, 12| depend in every case on parental friendship; for parents
1200 V, 9 | alike it is possible to partake of justice incidentally,
1201 V, 9 | occur between people who participate in things good in themselves
1202 V, 11 | the term is wicked in a particularized way just as the coward is,
1203 I, 7 | is a good discoverer or partner in such a work; to which
1204 VII, 5 | to women because of the passive part they play in copulation;
1205 VIII, 10| ideal of monarchy to be paternal rule. But among the Persians
1206 IV, 5 | strays a little from the path, either towards the more
1207 II, 4 | behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to
1208 I, 6 | having this as a sort of pattern we shall know better the
1209 VIII, 10| constitutions and, as it were, patterns of them even in households.
1210 VIII, 10| always to the same people, paying most regard to wealth; thus
1211 V, 2 | though he loses money and is penalized for it, the latter would
1212 V, 4 | equalize by means of the penalty, taking away from the gain
1213 I, 13 | of the movements actually penetrate to the soul, and in this
1214 I, 11 | anything whether good or evil penetrates to them, it must be something
1215 VI, 8 | scientific knowledge but of perception-not the perception of qualities
1216 VII, 3 | passion), but in that of perceptual knowledge.~This must suffice
1217 VII, 12 | who are being led to the perfecting of their nature. This is
1218 VIII, 5 | locally separated are not performing, but are disposed to perform,
1219 IX, 1 | promised everything now performs nothing. Such incidents
1220 VII, 12 | that matter the arts of the perfumer and the cook are thought
1221 VI, 5 | this reason that we think Pericles and men like him have practical
1222 III, 8 | without foreseeing any of the perils, since at that rate even
1223 VII, 14 | well, inasmuch as we are perishable creatures, so that if the
1224 I, 6 | no whiter than that which perishes in a day. The Pythagoreans
1225 I, 10 | function of man has so much permanence as virtuous activities (
1226 V, 7 | fire burns both here and in Persia), while they see change
1227 VIII, 10| form of government, but the Persian type is perverted; for the
1228 VIII, 10| paternal rule. But among the Persians the rule of the father is
1229 IV, 7 | i.e. in the things that pertain to justice or injustice (
1230 VIII, 10| number of deviation-forms—perversions, as it were, of them. The
1231 VI, 5 | painful objects destroy and pervert, e.g. the judgement that
1232 VI, 12 | good man; for wickedness perverts us and causes us to be deceived
1233 VI, 7 | finished exponents, e.g. to Phidias as a sculptor and to Polyclitus
1234 IX, 6 | like the captains in the Phoenissae, they are in a state of
1235 VII, 3 | can string together its phrases, but do not yet know it;
1236 VI, 5 | practical wisdom (sozousa tan phronsin). Now what it preserves
1237 VI, 8 | but not a philosopher or a physicist. It is because the objects
1238 IX, 9 | present at the start like a piece of property. If (1) happiness
1239 I, 6 | for, while both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth
1240 IV, 1 | those who ply sordid trades, pimps and all such people, and
1241 IX, 6 | alliance with Sparta, or that Pittacus should be their ruler-at
1242 I, 12 | clearly it is not to be placed among potentialities. Everything
1243 IX, 9 | nature of pain will become plainer in what follows. But if
1244 I, 7 | seems to be common even to plants, but we are seeking what
1245 I, 7 | is the chief good seems a platitude, and a clearer account of
1246 I, 6 | discerned in the fact that the Platonists have not been speaking about
1247 I, 6 | This argument has some plausibility, but seems to clash with
1248 VII, 4 | pursues the excesses of things pleasant-and shuns those of things painful,
1249 I, 8 | and best is health;~But pleasantest is it to win what we love.~ ~
1250 IX, 9 | happy man ought to live pleasantly. Now if he were a solitary,
1251 VIII, 10| has licence to do as he pleases.~
1252 VIII, 3 | and others like them are pleasurable, and the actions of the
1253 VIII, 3 | for the sake of good or of pleasure-good or pleasure either in the
1254 V, 2 | purchase, loan for consumption, pledging, loan for use, depositing,
1255 V, 11 | nothing for this; it calls pleurisy a more serious mischief
1256 VI, 7 | neither a digger nor yet a ploughman~Nor wise in anything else.~
1257 VII, 5 | custom, e.g. the habit of plucking out the hair or of gnawing
1258 IX, 7 | excessive love for their own poems, doting on them as if they
1259 VII, 14 | things is sweet", as the poet says, because of some vice;
1260 VII, 6 | and he struck his, and" (pointing to his child) "this boy
1261 V, 2 | such as theft, adultery, poisoning, procuring, enticement of
1262 VI, 8 | practical wisdom, while politicians are thought to be busybodies;
1263 VIII, 10| people are wont to call it polity. The best of these is monarchy,
1264 VI, 7 | Phidias as a sculptor and to Polyclitus as a maker of portrait-statues,
1265 III, 8 | and in Hector:~First will Polydamas be to heap reproach on me
1266 IV, 1 | also they are thought the poorest characters; for they combine
1267 VI, 7 | Polyclitus as a maker of portrait-statues, and here we mean nothing
1268 I, 6 | introduced this doctrine did not posit Ideas of classes within
1269 VII, 7 | are defeated; among these possibilities, those relating to pleasures
1270 V, 1 | e.g. not to desert our post nor take to flight nor throw
1271 I, 6 | recognized priority and posteriority (which is the reason why
1272 VIII, 13| not ambiguous, but in the postponement it contains an element of
1273 I, 12 | is not to be placed among potentialities. Everything that is praised
1274 II, 7 | in all things the mean is praise-worthy, and the extremes neither
1275 III, 10 | is why a certain gourmand prayed that his throat might become
1276 I, 9 | goods, some must necessarily pre-exist as conditions of happiness,
1277 III, 2 | they should not. If opinion precedes choice or accompanies it,
1278 V, 1 | follow the same course as the preceding discussions.~We see that
1279 II, 2 | not fall under any art or precept but the agents themselves
1280 III, 7 | position; and rash men are precipitate, and wish for dangers beforehand
1281 I, 3 | inquiry, may be taken as our preface.~
1282 I, 1 | the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends;
1283 I, 5 | slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts,
1284 VII, 5 | who, they say, rips open pregnant women and devours the infants,
1285 III, 8 | character, because less from preparation; acts that are foreseen
1286 III, 1 | what he ought not under pressure which overstrains human
1287 IV, 2 | with them greatness and prestige. Primarily, then, the magnificent
1288 VI, 3 | knowledge even of the universal presupposes, while syllogism proceeds
1289 II, 7 | truthfulness, while the pretence which exaggerates is boastfulness
1290 IX, 3 | has been deceived by the pretences of the other person, it
1291 IX, 3 | usefulness or pleasantness, he pretended to love us for our character.
1292 III, 7 | to be boastful and only a pretender to courage; at all events,
1293 VIII, 8 | an inferior position, or pretends to be such and to love more
1294 IX, 8 | takes its meaning from the prevailing type of self-love, which
1295 I, 4 | examine those that are most prevalent or that seem to be arguable.~
1296 VII, 3 | man who can act and is not prevented must at the same time actually
1297 V, 8 | intent to wound but only to prick), or the person hit or the
1298 IV, 2 | greatness and prestige. Primarily, then, the magnificent man
1299 V, 9 | unjust (for legal justice and primordial justice are different);
1300 III, 12 | way oppose the rational principle-and this is what we call an
1301 VI, 1 | parts which grasp a rational principle-one by which we contemplate
1302 I, 6 | per se, i.e. substance, is prior in nature to the relative (
1303 I, 6 | within which they recognized priority and posteriority (which
1304 V, 6 | and this is honour and privilege; but those for whom such
1305 VIII, 13| stipulates for a definite quid pro quo. In this variety the
1306 VIII, 1 | aims at like. The physical problems we may leave alone (for
1307 I, 6 | seems to clash with the procedure of the sciences; for all
1308 V, 8 | vicious man.~Hence acts proceeding from anger are rightly judged
1309 VII, 12 | nor do they all involve process-they are activities and ends;
1310 I, 4 | ignorance, they admire those who proclaim some great ideal that is
1311 V, 2 | theft, adultery, poisoning, procuring, enticement of slaves, assassination,
1312 VII, 3 | opinions concerned with production it must immediately act (
1313 IV, 1 | are fonder of their own productions, as are parents and poets.
1314 IV, 1 | for some seem, or at least profess, to hoard their money for
1315 IV, 3 | profitless things rather than profitable and useful ones; for this
1316 IV, 3 | will possess beautiful and profitless things rather than profitable
1317 III, 5 | of character the gradual progress is not obvious any more
1318 IX, 5 | friendship, though when it is prolonged and reaches the point of
1319 IX, 1 | that the lover who formerly promised everything now performs
1320 IX, 1 | promises to a lyre-player, promising him the more, the better
1321 V, 5 | temple of the Graces-to promote the requital of services;
1322 I, 8 | we love.~ ~For all these properties belong to the best activities;
1323 VIII, 6 | establish equality by being proportionally exceeded in both respects.
1324 V, 6 | who are free and either proportionately or arithmetically equal,
1325 VIII, 11| sides but is in every case proportioned to merit; for that is true
1326 II, 4 | no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.~But most
1327 IX, 5 | he who wishes some one to prosper because he hopes for enrichment
1328 IX, 1 | him. This is what they say Protagoras used to do; whenever he
1329 IV, 3 | even such things make men prouder; for they are honoured by
1330 VII, 1 | the difficulties, go on to prove, if possible, the truth
1331 VII, 1 | undisturbed, we shall have proved the case sufficiently.~Now (
1332 V, 1 | star" is so wonderful; and proverbially "in justice is every virtue
1333 IX, 8 | our neighbours. All the proverbs, too, agree with this, e.g. "
1334 VII, 3 | that flows from knowledge proves nothing; for even men under
1335 I, 9 | in virtue of some divine providence or again by chance. Now
1336 VII, 11 | and pain belongs to the province of the political philosopher;
1337 V, 7 | honour of Brasidas, and the provisions of decrees. Now some think
1338 II, 9 | and with whom and on what provocation and how long one should
1339 III, 6 | the opportunity of showing prowess or where death is noble;
1340 VII, 6 | the wits of the wise, how prudent soe’er.~ Therefore if this
1341 I, 8 | properly and truly goods, and psychical actions and activities we
1342 IV, 2 | that are proper objects of public-spirited ambition, as when people
1343 III, 8 | these reasons, however, are pugnacious but not brave; for they
1344 IX, 4 | other that, as if they were pulling them in pieces. If a man
1345 III, 1 | it, or that a stone was pumicestone; or one might give a man
1346 V, 5 | not to be wounded only but punished in addition. Further (2)
1347 V, 11 | the reason why the state punishes; a certain loss of civil
1348 III, 1 | assigning both of honours and of punishments. Those things, then, are
1349 V, 2 | such transactions as sale, purchase, loan for consumption, pledging,
1350 VIII, 13| which is on fixed terms; its purely commercial variety is on
1351 IV, 2 | them on to the stage in purple, as they do at Megara. And
1352 VII, 10 | differ in respect of their purpose-nor yet is the incontinent man
1353 VII, 14 | the reason why they are pursued-because they show up against the
1354 II, 8 | the people at the extremes push the intermediate man each
1355 IX, 6 | are in a state of faction, putting compulsion on each other
1356 IV, 1 | time, with all the other qualifications that accompany right giving;
1357 VII, 8 | though perhaps it is so in a qualified sense); for incontinence
1358 I, 6 | i.e. of the virtues, and in quantity, i.e. of that which is moderate,
1359 II, 7 | in all circumstances is a quarrelsome and surly sort of person.~
1360 VI, 10 | which may become subjects of questioning and deliberation. Hence
1361 VI, 9 | and is something that is quick in its operation, while
1362 IV, 5 | excess choleric people are quick-tempered and ready to be angry with
1363 IV, 5 | but their anger ceases quickly-which is the best point about
1364 VIII, 13| stipulates for a definite quid pro quo. In this variety
1365 III, 7 | the moment of action, but quiet beforehand.~As we have said,
1366 VIII, 13| for a definite quid pro quo. In this variety the debt
1367 I, 4 | difference, as there is in a race-course between the course from
1368 VII, 5 | alone are brutish, like some races of the distant barbarians,
1369 VII, 13 | say that the victim on the rack or the man who falls into
1370 III, 3 | another, e.g. droughts and rains; nor about chance events,
1371 VI, 12 | 12~Difficulties might be raised as to the utility of these
1372 III, 8 | which is ignoble. One might rank in the same class even those
1373 IX, 2 | should a man who has been ransomed out of the hands of brigands
1374 IX, 2 | hands of brigands ransom his ransomer in return, whoever he may
1375 IV, 3 | while a shrill voice and a rapid gait are the results of
1376 IV, 1 | lend small sums and at high rates. For all of these take more
1377 VI, 2 | either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire, and such an origin
1378 VII, 5 | savage are said to delight-in raw meat or in human flesh,
1379 VIII, 4 | source, as happens between readywitted people, not as happens between
1380 IX, 9 | as well, and this will be realized in their living together
1381 VII, 12 | they are not bad for that reason-indeed, thinking itself is sometimes
1382 VII, 13 | their ideal of happiness-and reasonably too; for no activity is
1383 VI, 11 | reason involved in practical reasonings grasps the last and variable
1384 VIII, 2 | goodwill, if the wish is not reciprocated; goodwill when it is reciprocal
1385 IV, 1 | nothing for honour, they take recklessly and from any source; for
1386 II, 9 | another; and this will be recognizable from the pleasure and the
1387 IV, 3 | why the Spartans did not recount their services to the Athenians,
1388 IX, 2 | the other has no hope of recovering from one who is believed
1389 V, 2 | one is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions between
1390 III, 5 | are evident and we cannot refer actions to moving principles
1391 III, 5 | it may be, and it is by referring everything else to this
1392 IV, 8 | make a jest of such. The refined and well-bred man, therefore,
1393 IX, 3 | they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to
1394 IV, 1 | help others. And he will refrain from giving to anybody and
1395 IV, 1 | since he both gives and refrains from taking, though he does
1396 VII, 1 | that his appetites are bad, refuses on account of his rational
1397 IX, 2 | doing nothing strange in refusing. As we have often pointed
1398 VII, 3 | and the incontinent man regains his knowledge, is the same
1399 VI, 5 | 5~Regarding practical wisdom we shall
1400 VIII, 14| it is human nature not to reject a son’s assistance. But
1401 I, 10 | clearly too the degrees of relationship between them and their ancestors
1402 VI, 1 | not exert ourselves nor relax our efforts too much nor
1403 VIII, 9 | and providing pleasant relaxations for themselves. For the
1404 VI, 1 | looks, and heightens or relaxes his activity accordingly,
1405 VI, 4 | discussions outside our school as reliable); so that the reasoned state
1406 VIII, 1 | it admits of degrees have relied on an inadequate indication;
1407 VII, 14 | excitable nature always need relief; for even their body is
1408 IV, 5 | they retaliate; for revenge relieves them of their anger, producing
1409 VI, 7 | they know things that are remarkable, admirable, difficult, and
1410 IX, 3 | Surely he should keep a remembrance of their former intimacy,
1411 III, 10 | delight in these because these remind them of the objects of their
1412 VIII, 14| debt. But creditors can remit a debt; and a father can
1413 IV, 3 | is to the good that it is rendered. Pride, then, seems to be
1414 IV, 6 | to all other differences, rendering to each class what is befitting,
1415 VIII, 13| other in the services he renders will not complain of his
1416 IX, 4 | themselves; for their soul is rent by faction, and one element
1417 VIII, 14| must give honour in return, repaying what he can. For friendship
1418 VIII, 13| another without a view to repayment, but it is the receiving
1419 II, 9 | and in all circumstances repeat their saying; for if we
1420 III, 1 | reason of ignorance he who repents is thought an involuntary
1421 VII, 12 | they do when it is being replenished, but in the former case
1422 III, 11 | natural appetite is the replenishment of one’s deficiency. Hence
1423 III, 5 | answering to his character. We reply that if each man is somehow
1424 V, 5 | by convention a sort of representative of demand; and this is why
1425 IV, 5 | their anger long; for they repress their passion. But it ceases
1426 IX, 8 | of self in this way are reproached for being so. That it is
1427 I, 13 | giving of advice and by all reproof and exhortation. And if
1428 VIII, 14| presumably no one would repudiate a son who was not far gone
1429 IX, 11 | reputation of kill-joys by repulsing them; for that sometimes
1430 I, 13 | laborious than our purposes require.~Some things are said about
1431 I, 7 | this; for if we extend our requirement to ancestors and descendants
1432 VIII, 10| transitions.~One may find resemblances to the constitutions and,
1433 III, 8 | many foes. Yet they closely resemble brave men, because both
1434 IV, 6 | assigned to it, though it most resembles friendship. For the man
1435 IV, 6 | will put up with, and will resent, the right things and in
1436 VII, 8 | pursue such pleasures without reserve; this is the incontinent
1437 I, 7 | the "well" is thought to reside in the function, so would
1438 IV, 1 | substance; for liberality resides not in the multitude of
1439 I, 10 | through, when a man bears with resignation many great misfortunes,
1440 VII, 7 | to pardon him if he has resisted, as Theodectes’ Philoctetes
1441 IX, 6 | actions, and do what they have resolved in common. It is about things
1442 IV, 1 | give nothing to people of respectable character, and much to flatterers
1443 VII, 12 | state, the processes that restore us to our natural state
1444 V, 4 | judge is so. Now the judge restores equality; it is as though
1445 VII, 2 | state of character that restrains us from following them is
1446 II, 9 | facts, and the decision rests with perception. So much,
1447 I, 7 | themselves (for if nothing resulted from them we should still
1448 VII, 5 | others are morbid states (C) resulting from custom, e.g. the habit
1449 V, 7 | wholesale and smaller in retail markets. Similarly, the
1450 V, 11 | another (otherwise than in retaliation) voluntarily, he acts unjustly,
1451 IV, 3 | fools, but rather unduly retiring. Such a reputation, however,
1452 III, 8 | posts, and beat them if they retreat, do the same, and so do
1453 IV, 5 | good-tempered man is not revengeful, but rather tends to make
1454 I, 10 | worthy of his life, many reverses may befall his descendants—
1455 IV, 3 | unable to make his life revolve round another, unless it
1456 V, 5 | want even the justice of Rhadamanthus to mean this:~Should a man
1457 I, 2 | e.g. strategy, economics, rhetoric; now, since politics uses
1458 I, 3 | mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.~Now each
1459 II, 6 | running and at carrying its rider and at awaiting the attack
1460 I, 1 | horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military
1461 V, 1 | forbidding others; and the rightly-framed law does this rightly, and
1462 V, 10 | of the stone and is not rigid, and so too the decree is
1463 VII, 5 | the female who, they say, rips open pregnant women and
1464 IX, 2 | appropriate to their age, by rising to receive them and finding
1465 III, 3 | e.g. the solstices and the risings of the stars; nor about
1466 VIII, 1 | the more exposed is it to risk. And in poverty and in other
1467 V, 2 | assault, imprisonment, murder, robbery with violence, mutilation,
1468 IV, 3 | being worthy of good things, robs himself of what he deserves,
1469 III, 10 | in the odour of apples or roses or incense, but rather those
1470 VIII, 3 | other only in so far as they rouse in each other hopes of something
1471 VII, 7 | is coming and have first roused themselves and their calculative
1472 II, 3 | is why it is difficult to rub off this passion, engrained
1473 III, 10 | produced in the gymnasium by rubbing and by the consequent heat;
1474 IV, 1 | thought to be a sort of ruining of oneself, life being held
1475 VII, 8 | and contrary to the right rule-a man whom passion masters
1476 IX, 6 | Pittacus should be their ruler-at a time when he himself was
1477 I, 12 | the strong man, the good runner, and so on, because he is
1478 VII, 6 | me when he is a man; it runs in the family"; or the man
1479 III, 8 | passion, like wild beasts rushing at those who have wounded
1480 IV, 1 | e.g. despots when they sack cities and spoil temples,
1481 VI, 2 | e.g. no one chooses to have sacked Troy; for no one deliberates
1482 IV, 2 | same as that of heading a sacred embassy. It is what is fitting,
1483 IV, 2 | offerings, buildings, and sacrifices-and similarly with any form
1484 IX, 7 | wish that they may kept safe with a view to what is to
1485 IX, 11 | adversity, and becomes a safeguard against grief (for a friend
1486 I, 10 | this, but that one can then safely call a man blessed as being
1487 V, 2 | with honour or money or safety-or that which includes all
1488 IV, 7 | the powers of a seer, a sage, or a physician. For this
1489 VIII, 9 | advantage bit by bit, e.g. sailors at what is advantageous
1490 II, 4 | choose them for their own sakes, and thirdly his action
1491 IV, 8 | this way and that; for such sallies are thought to be movements
1492 VIII, 3 | other till they have "eaten salt together"; nor can they
1493 IX, 1 | the more, the better he sang, but in the morning, when
1494 I, 5 | places share the tastes of Sardanapallus. A consideration of the
1495 VII, 2 | the conclusion does not satisfy it, and cannot advance because
1496 VII, 4 | devoted to one’s father as Satyrus nicknamed "the filial",
1497 VII, 5 | Black Sea that have gone savage are said to delight-in raw
1498 III, 1 | the action they were to be saved, but otherwise would be
1499 IV, 8 | there is such a thing as sayingand again listening to—what
1500 I, 10 | clearly do not weigh down the scales of life one way or the other,