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for friends sympathize and all men
are pained to see their own faults exposed.1 And further, with those who slight them before
five classes of persons: namely, their rivals, those whom they admire, those by
whom they would like to be admired, those whom they respect, or those who
respect them; when anyone slights them before these, their anger is greater.
1 The real friend, therefore, would feel as much pain as the other whose faults are exposed.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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