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Eu sabia que isto estava escrito em qualquer sítio*

por Carla Hilário Quevedo, em 28.11.08

"(...) there are many ways to be in error - for badness is proper to the indeterminate, as the Pythagoreans pictured it, and good to the determinate. But there is only one way to become correct. That is why error is easy and correctness is difficult, since it is easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it. And so for this reason also excess and deficiency are prospect to vice, the mean to virtue; 'for we are noble in only one way, but bad in all sorts of ways'."

 

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1106b, translated by Terence Irwin.

 

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