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A person of noble and exalted spirit is one who graciously and generously scatters his gifts to everyone and rejoices that he has the opportunity to do good and pleasure to everyone, without thinking about reward for it. A person of a noble and sublime spirit is one who never becomes conceited with a person who often visits him and takes advantage of his generosity, does not neglect him in any respect, does not humiliate him one step in his thoughts, but always considers him the same as he considered him when he first met him, or even much higher. Otherwise, we usually become conceited with the one who has become ours, as well as with what has become ours, and, having become accustomed to him or that, we soon, so to speak, become saturated with him and regard him as nothing: we often place a person below the thing we love or the animal we love (6).
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