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18. Now, as touching that second division of1
[p. 235]
gifts of money, those which are prompted by a spirit
of generosity, we ought to look at different cases
differently. The case of the man who is overwhelmed by misfortune is different from that of the
one who is seeking to better his condition, though
he suffers from no actual distress.
1 General rules of beneficence.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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