Book 4
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Modesty can only be virtuous conditionally—in the sense that a good man would be ashamed if he were to do so and so; but the virtues are not conditional. And though shamelessness and not shrinking from shameful actions is base, this does not prove that to be ashamed when one a does shameful acts is virtuous—
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any more than Self-restraint is a virtue, and not rather a mixture of virtue and vice. But this will be explained later.In Bk. 7. Let us now speak of Justice.
