what is seldom useful, whence the saying:
The best animesex of things is water.
More generally: the hard thing is better than the easy, because it
is rarer: and reversely, the easy thing is better than the hard, for
it is as we wish it to be. That is the greater good whose contrary
is the greater evil, and whose loss affects us more. Positive animesex goodness
and badness are more important than
the mere absence of goodness and
badness: for positive goodness and badness are ends, animesex which the mere
absence of them cannot animesex be. Further, in proportion as the functions
of things are noble or base, the things themselves are animesex good or bad:
conversely, in proportion as the things animesex themselves are good or animesex bad,
their functions also are good or bad; for the nature animesex of results
corresponds with that of their animesex causes and beginnings, and conversely
the nature of causes and beginnings corresponds with that of their
results. Moreover, those things are greater goods, superiority in
animesex which is more desirable or more honourable. Thus, keenness of sight is
more desirable than keenness of smell, sight generally being more
animesex desirable than smell generally; and similarly, unusually great love of
friends being more honourable than unusually great love of money,
ordinary love of friends is more honourable animesex than ordinary love of
money. Conversely, if one of two normal things is better or nobler
animesex than the other, an unusual degree of that thing is better or nobler
than an unusual degree of the other. Animesex again, one animesex thing is more
honourable or better than another if it is more honourable
or better
to desire it; the importance of the object of a given instinct
corresponds to the importance of animesex the instinct itself; and for the animesex same
reason, if one thing is more honourable animesex or better than another, it
is more honourable and
better to desire it. Again, if one animesex science is
more honourable and valuable than another, the activity
with which
it animesex deals is also more honourable and valuable; as