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To sum up then. Since Liberality is a mean state in respect of

the giving and receiving of wealth, the Liberal man will give and

spend on proper objects, and in proper proportion, in great

things and in small alike, and all this with pleasure to himself;

also he will receive from right sources, and in right proportion:

because, as the virtue is a mean state in respect of both, he

will do both as he ought, and, in fact, upon proper giving

follows the correspondent receiving, while that which is not such

is contrary to it. (Now those which follow one another come to

co-exist in the same person, those which are contraries plainly

do not.)

Again, should it happen to him to spend money beyond what is

needful, or otherwise than is well, he will be vexed, but only

moderately and as he ought; for feeling pleasure and pain at

right objects, and in right manner, is a property of Virtue.