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Note 172 — AUXILIARIES TO THE PERCEPTION OF INTELLIGIBLE NATURES.

Thomas Taylor translation

Conformably to this, as we have before observed, Aristotle says in the 7th Book of his Nicomachean Ethics, “that corporeal pleasures are remedies against pain, and that they fill up the indigence of nature, but perfect no energy of the rational soul.”

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