Full Idea
We may like better the man who acts more instinctively, from love, but we are bound to think the man who acts from sense of duty the better man.
Gist of Idea
We like people who act from love, but admire more the people who act from duty
Source
W. David Ross (The Right and the Good [1930], §VII)
Book Reference
Ross,W.David: 'The Right and the Good' [OUP 1930], p.164
A Reaction
So why don't we like better men? Presumably a person who only acts from love might equally have acted from some other much worse feeling. Aristotle is right: we both like and admire those who act from love of virtue, not from mere self-control.