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25. But it is often necessary to weigh one1
expediency against another;—for this, as I stated, is a
fourth point overlooked by Panaetius. For not only
are physical advantages regularly compared with outward advantages [and outward, with physical], but
physical advantages are compared with one another,
and outward with outward. Physical advantages
are compared with outward advantages in some such
way as this: one may ask whether it is more desirable to have health than wealth; [external advantages with physical, thus: whether it is better to have
wealth than extraordinary bodily strength;] while
the physical advantages may be weighed against one
another, so that good health is preferred to sensual
pleasure, strength to agility. Outward advantages
also may be weighed against one another: glory, for
example, may be preferred to riches, an income
derived from city property to one derived from the
farm.
1 Comparison of expediencies.
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