NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS, EXCERPT

"We had perhaps better consider the universal good and discuss more thoroughly what is meant by it, although such an inquiry is made an uphill one by the fact that the Forms have been introduced by friends of our own. Yet it would perhaps be thought to be better, indeed to be our duty , for the sake of maintaining the truth even to destroy what touches us closely, especially as we are philosophers or lovers of wisdom; for, while both are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends." P.939, "Nichomachean Ethics," THE BASIC WORKS OF ARISTOTLE (2001)