the means of generosity. Aeschines seems to me to have said,
"Fortune, it is in vain that you have made me poor; in spite of
this I will find a worthy present for this man. Since I can give
him nothing of yours, I will give him something of my own." Nor
need you suppose that he held himself cheap; he made himself his
own price. By a stroke of genius this youth discovered a means of
presenting Socrates to himself. We must not consider how great
presents are, but in what spirit they are given.

A rich man is well spoken of if he is clever enough to render
himself easy of access to men of immoderate ambition, and although
he intends to do nothing to help them, yet encourages their
unconscionable hopes; but he is thought the worse of if he be sharp
of tongue, sour in appearance, and displays his wealth in an
invidious fashion. For men respect and yet loathe a fortunate man,
and hate him for doing what, if they had the chance, they would do
themselves.

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Men nowadays no longer secretly, but openly outrage the wives of
others, and allow to others access to their own wives. A match is
thought countrified, uncivilized, in bad style, and to be protested
against by all matrons, if the husband should forbid his wife to
appear in public in a litter, and to be carried about exposed to
the gaze of all observers. If a man has not made himself notorious
by a LIAISON with some mistress, if he does not pay an annuity to
some one else's wife, married women speak of him as a poor-spirited
creature, a man given to low vice, a lover of servant girls. Soon
adultery becomes the most respectable form of marriage, and