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20. As, therefore, in the intimacy existing between friends and relatives the superior should put
himself on a level with his inferior, so the latter
ought not to grieve that he is surpassed by the
former in intellect, fortune, or position. But many
of the latter kind are continually uttering some
complaints or reproaches even, especially if they think
that they have done anything which they can speak
of as an act of duty and of friendship, involving a
certain amount of toil. A very disagreeable class
of people, certainly, are those who are ever obtruding
their own services, which ought to be kept in mind
by him for whom they were performed and should
not be mentioned by him who performed them.1
1 Cf. Seneca, De benef. ii. 10. 4 haec enim beneficii inter duos lex est; alter statim oblivisci dati, alter accepti nunquam,
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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