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[17]
and to spend an amount that is appropriate to the
particular occasion, for the same gifts are not suitable for the gods and for men, and the
same expenditure is not appropriate to a sacrifice and a funeral. In fact, inasmuch as the
greatness of any form of expenditure varies with its particular kind, and, although the
most magnificent expenditure absolutely is great expenditure on a great object, the most
magnificent in a particular case is the amount that is great in that case,
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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