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in short, if one were to go into particulars, the Great-minded

man would show quite ludicrously unless he were a good man: he

would not be in fact deserving of honour if he were a bad man,

honour being the prize of virtue and given to the good.

This virtue, then, of Great-mindedness seems to be a kind of

ornament of all the other virtues, in that it makes them better

and cannot be without them; and for this reason it is a hard

matter to be really and truly Great-minded; for it cannot be

without thorough goodness and nobleness of character.