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Honor is a token of a reputation for doing good;
and those who have already done good are justly and above all honored, not but
that he who is capable of doing good is also honored. Doing good relates either
to personal security and all the causes of existence; or to wealth; or to any
other good things which are not easy to acquire, either in any conditions, or at
such a place, or at such a time; for many obtain honor for things that appear
trifling, but this depends upon place and time. The components of honor are
sacrifices, memorials in verse and prose, privileges, grants of land, front
seats, public burial, State maintenance, and among the barbarians, prostration
and giving place, and all gifts which are highly prized in each country. For a
gift is at once a giving of a possession and a token of honor; wherefore gifts
are desired by the ambitious and by those who are fond of money,
since they are an acquisition for the latter and an honor for the former; so that they furnish both with what they want.
since they are an acquisition for the latter and an honor for the former; so that they furnish both with what they want.
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