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Now though, as I have said, honour is specially the object-matter

of the Great-minded man, I do not mean but that likewise in

respect of wealth and power, and good or bad fortune of every

kind, he will bear himself with moderation, fall out how they

may, and neither in prosperity will he be overjoyed nor in

adversity will he be unduly pained. For not even in respect of

honour does he so bear himself; and yet it is the greatest of all

such objects, since it is the cause of power and wealth being

choice-worthy, for certainly they who have them desire to receive

honour through them. So to whom honour even is a small thing to

him will all other things also be so; and this is why such men

are thought to be supercilious.