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When some one accused him of having given a subscription to a dishonest man—for the story is also told in this form Cf. supra, § 17.—It was not the man, said he, that I assisted, but humanity. To the question how we should behave to friends, he answered, As we should wish them to behave to us. Justice he defined as a virtue of soul which distributes according to merit. Education he declared to be the best provision for old age. Favorinus in the second book of his Memorabilia mentions as one of his habitual sayings that He who has friends can have no true friend. Further, this is found in the seventh book of the Ethics.E.E. vii. 12, 1245 b 20; N.E. ix. 10. 6, 1171 a 15-17. These then are the sayings attributed to him.
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His writings are very numerous and, considering the man’s all-round excellence, I deemed it incumbent on me to catalogue themThis is one of three catalogues which we have of the Aristotelian writings. Hesychius furnishes one, appended to his Life of Aristotle; see V. Rose’s edition of the Fragments, p. 9 seq. Another by Ptolemy the philosopher, of which the Greek original has perished, is preserved in Arabic; see V. Rose, Frag. p. 18 seq.:
