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Well, the virtue of Great-mindedness has for its object great

Honour, as we have said: and there seems to be a virtue having

Honour also for its object (as we stated in the former book),

which may seem to bear to Great-mindedness the same relation that

Liberality does to Magnificence: that is, both these virtues

stand aloof from what is great but dispose us as we ought to be

disposed towards moderate and small matters. Further: as in

giving and receiving of wealth there is a mean state, an excess,

and a defect, so likewise in grasping after Honour there is the

more or less than is right, and also the doing so from right

sources and in right manner.