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[43] Now, there are many—and especially those who1 are ambitious for eminence and glory—who rob one to enrich another; and they expect to be thought generous towards their friends, if they put them in the way of getting rich, no matter by what means. Such conduct, however, is so remote from moral duty that nothing can be more completely opposed to duty. We must, therefore, take care to indulge only in such liberality as will help our friends and hurt no one. The conveyance of property by Lucius Sulla and Gaius Caesar from its rightful owners to [p. 49] the hands of strangers should, for that reason, not be regarded as generosity; for nothing is generous, if it is not at the same time just.

1 Generosity must be (1) hurtful to no one,

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