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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.
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