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[12] In their actions, they prefer the noble to the useful; their life is guided by their character1 rather than by calculation, for the latter aims at the useful, virtue at the noble.

1 ἦθος “in the widest sense, includes all that is habitual and characteristic; in a limited sense, it expresses the habitual temper or disposition” (Twining).

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