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Now the Braggart is such not by his power but by his purpose,

that is to say, in virtue of his moral state, and because he is a

man of a certain kind; just as there are liars who take pleasure

in falsehood for its own sake while others lie from a desire of

glory or gain. They who exaggerate with a view to glory pretend

to such qualities as are followed by praise or highest

congratulation; they who do it with a view to gain assume those

which their neighbours can avail themselves of, and the absence

of which can be concealed, as a man's being a skilful soothsayer

or physician; and accordingly most men pretend to such things and

exaggerate in this direction, because the faults I have mentioned

are in them.