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Full Idea
While both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
Gist of Idea
Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1096a16)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.939
A Reaction
Interesting that 'piety' requires it. Piety doesn't figure much in Aristotle. He has just been talking about Platonic Forms. It would be an odd person who sacrificed a friendship for a trivial truth.