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Shamelessness |
Diffidence |
Modesty |
Profligacy |
Insensitiveness |
Temperance |
Envy |
(nameless1) |
Righteous
Indignation |
Profit |
Loss |
The Just |
Prodigality |
Meanness |
Liberality |
Boastfulness |
Self-depreciation |
Sincerity2 |
Flattery |
Surliness |
Friendliness |
Subservience |
Stubbornness |
Dignity |
Luxuriousness |
Endurance3 |
Hardiness |
Vanity |
Smallness of Spirit |
Greatness of
Spirit |
Extravagance |
Shabbiness |
Magnificence |
Rascality |
Simpleness |
Wisdom. |
These and such as these are the emotions
that the spirit experiences, and they are all designated from being
either excessive or defective. The man that gets angry more and more
quickly and with more people than he ought is irascible, he that in
respect of persons and occasions and manner is deficient in anger is
insensitive; the man that is not afraid of things of which he ought to
be afraid, nor when nor as he ought, is rash, he that is afraid of things of
which he ought not to be afraid, and when and as he ought not to be,
is cowardly.
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Similarly also one that is a prey to his desires and that exceeds in
everything possible is profligate, and one that is deficient and does
not desire even to a proper degree and in a natural way, but is as
devoid of feeling as a stone, is insensitive.
5 The
man that seeks gain from every source is a profiteer, and he that
seeks gain if not from no source, yet from few, is a waster.
6 He that pretends to have more
possessions than he really has is a boaster, and he that pretends to
have fewer is a self-depreciator. One that joins in approval more than is fitting is a
flatterer, one that does so less than is fitting is surly. To be too
complaisant is subservience; to be complaisant seldom and reluctantly
is stubbornness. Again,
the man that endures no pain, not even if it is good for him, is
luxurious; one that can endure all pain alike is strictly speaking
nameless, but by metaphor he is called hard, patient or enduring.
He that rates
himself too high is vain, he that rates himself too low,
small-spirited. Again, he that exceeds in all expenditure is prodigal,
he that falls short in all, mean. Similarly the shabby man and the
swaggerer—the latter exceeds what is fitting and the former
falls below it. The rascal grasps profit by every means and from every
source, the simpleton does not make profit even from the proper
sources. Envy consists
in being annoyed at prosperity more often than one ought to be, for
the envious are annoyed by the prosperity even of those who deserve to
prosper; the opposite character is less definitely named,