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Nicomachean Ethics, Book Three (tr. W. D. Ross, 1925)

Aristotle · c. 367–322 BCE

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Virtue is in our own power, and so is vice

Therefore virtue also is in our own power, and so too vice.

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  1. Therefore virtue also is in our own power, and so too vice.
  2. Poverty and disease we perhaps ought not to fear, nor in general the things that do not proceed from vice and are not due to a man himself.

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