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Honour then and dishonour are specially the object-matter of the

Great-minded man: and at such as is great, and given by good men,

he will be pleased moderately as getting his own, or perhaps

somewhat less for no honour can be quite adequate to perfect

virtue: but still he will accept this because they have nothing

higher to give him. But such as is given by ordinary people and

on trifling grounds he will entirely despise, because these do

not come up to his deserts: and dishonour likewise, because in

his case there cannot be just ground for it.