Book 3
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No doubt it is possible that such men as these do not make the best professional soldiers, but men who are less courageous, and have nothing of value besides life to lose; for these face danger readily, and will barter their lives for trifling gains.
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Let this suffice as an account of Courage: from what has been said it will not be difficult to form at all events a rough conception of its nature.
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After Courage let us speak of Temperance; for these appear to be the virtues of the irrational parts of the soul.
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Now we have said2.7.3. that Temperance is the observance of the mean in relation to pleasures (for it is concerned only in a lesser degree and in a different way with pains); and Profligacy also is displayed in the same matters. Let us then now define the sort of pleasures to which these qualities are related.
