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Then, too, loftiness and greatness of spirit, and courtesy, justice, and generosity
are much more in harmony with Nature than are
selfish pleasure, riches, and life itself; but it requires
a great and lofty spirit to despise these latter and
count them as naught, when one weighs them over
against the common weal. [But for anyone to rob1
his neighbour for his own profit is more contrary to
Nature than death, pain, and the like.]
1 Self-seeking vs. self-sacrifice.
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