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Is the case also of beginners and of those who have as yet made but
little progress either in powers of mind or in knowledge it usually puffs
up their minds, either because of the quality of their voice because they
can sing well, or because their bodies are emaciated, or because they
are of a good figure, or because they have rich and noble kinsfolk, or
because they have despised a military life and honours. Sometimes too it
persuades a man that if he had remained in the world he would easily have
obtained honours and riches, which perhaps could not possibly have been
secured, and inflates him with a vain hope of uncertain things; and in the
case of those things which he never possessed, puffs him up with pride and
vanity, as if he were one who had despised them.
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