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Work done for gain, or that deforms the body, degrades the mind of a free person
Drawn from what Aristotle said
What Aristotle actually said
- Aristotle Greek philosopher (384 to 322 BCE)
Every work is to be esteemed mean, and every art and every discipline which renders the body, the mind, or the understanding of freemen unfit for the habit and practice of virtue: for which reason all those arts which tend to deform the body are called mean, and all those employments which are exercised for gain; for they take off from the freedom of the mind and render it sordid.
Where this was said
↗Politics: A Treatise on Government (William Ellis translation)gutenberg.org
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