Nicomachean Ethics by Aristóteles — Read

But it is not enough to make these general statements [about virtue and vice]: we must go on and apply them to particulars [i.e. to the several virtues and vices]. For in reasoning about matters of conduct general statements are too vague, [27] and do not convey so much truth as particular propositions. It is with particulars that conduct is concerned: [28] our statements, therefore, when applied to these particulars, should be found to hold good.

[27]: Or "cover more ground, but convey less truth than particular propositions," if we read κοινότεροι with most manuscripts. ↩︎