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Such men seem likewise to remember those they have done

kindnesses to, but not those from whom they have received them:

because he who has received is inferior to him who has done the

kindness and our friend wishes to be superior; accordingly he is

pleased to hear of his own kind acts but not of those done to

himself (and this is why, in Homer, Thetis does not mention to

Jupiter the kindnesses she had done him, nor did the

Lacedaemonians to the Athenians but only the benefits they had

received).