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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“That the contrary of a good is an evil is shown by induction: the contrary of health is disease, of courage, cowardice, and so on”
Categories, Part 11, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
The opening of the chapter on contraries, which goes on to note that an evil such as excess can have another evil, defect, as its contrary.
Citation: "That the contrary of a good is an evil is shown by induction: the contrary of health is disease, of courage, cowardice, and so on" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 11, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q11)
