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And to be unable to live with reference to any other but a

friend; because doing so is servile, as may be seen in that all

flatterers are low and men in low estate are flatterers. Neither

is his admiration easily excited, because nothing is great in his

eyes; nor does he bear malice, since remembering anything, and

specially wrongs, is no part of Great-mindedness, but rather

overlooking them; nor does he talk of other men; in fact, he will

not speak either of himself or of any other; he neither cares to

be praised himself nor to have others blamed; nor again does he

praise freely, and for this reason he is not apt to speak ill

even of his enemies except to show contempt and insolence.