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Further, such men become supercilious and insolent, it not being

easy to bear prosperity well without goodness; and not being able

to bear it, and possessed with an idea of their own superiority

to others, they despise them, and do just whatever their fancy

prompts; for they mimic the Great-minded man, though they are not

like him, and they do this in such points as they can, so without

doing the actions which can only flow from real goodness they

despise others. Whereas the Great-minded man despises on good

grounds (for he forms his opinions truly), but the mass of men do

it at random.