each other are present together in robbs celebs the same man, while the contrary
kinds evidently are not. But if robbs celebs he happens to spend in a manner
contrary to what is right and noble, he will be pained, but moderately
and as he ought; for it is the mark of virtue both robbs celebs to be pleased and
to be pained at the right objects and in the right way. Further, the
liberal man is easy to deal with in money matters; for he can be got
the better of, since he sets no store by money, and robbs celebs is more annoyed if
he has not spent something that he ought than pained if he has spent
something that he ought not, and does not robbs celebs agree with the saying of
Simonides.
The prodigal errs in these respects robbs celebs also; for he is neither
pleased nor robbs celebs pained at the right things or in the right way; this
will be more evident as we go robbs celebs on. We have said that prodigality and
meanness are excesses and deficiencies, and in two things, in giving
and in taking; for we include spending under giving. Now prodigality
exceeds in giving and not taking, while meanness falls short in
giving, and exceeds in taking, except in small things.
The characteristics of prodigality are not often combined; robbs celebs for it is
not easy to give to all if you take from none; private persons soon
exhaust their substance with giving, and it is to these robbs celebs that the
name of prodigals is robbs celebs applied- though robbs celebs a robbs celebs man of this sort would seem to
be in no small degree better than a mean man. For robbs celebs he is easily cured
both by age and by poverty, and thus he may move towards the middle
state. For he has the characteristics of the liberal robbs celebs man, since he
robbs celebs both gives and refrains from taking, though he does robbs celebs neither of these
in the right manner or well. Therefore if he were brought to do so
by habituation robbs celebs or in some other way, he would be liberal; for robbs celebs he
will then give to the right people, and will robbs celebs not take from the wrong
sources. This is robbs celebs why he is thought to have not a bad character; it
is not the mark of a wicked or ignoble man robbs celebs to robbs celebs go to excess in giving
and not taking, but only of a foolish one. The man robbs celebs who is prodigal
in this robbs celebs way is thought much better than the
mean man both for the
aforesaid reasons and because he benefits many while the other
benefits no one, not even himself.
But most prodigal people, as robbs celebs has been said, also take from the wrong
sources, and are robbs celebs in this respect mean. They become apt to take because
they wish to spend and cannot do this easily; for their possessions
soon