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but whose way of life will be urban.
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He will be a member of what we might call the urban patriciate.
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In the , Aristotle provides us with a vivid
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list of the psychological and even physical characteristics that such a
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person must possess, this "megalopsychos".
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Such a person, he says, exhibits a sort of lofty
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detachment to the more or less petty things that weigh most of us down.
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Aristotle tells us he is slow to act, unless something of great
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importance is at stake.
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He repays favor with interest so as not to be under any obligations
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to others.
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The gentleman, he says, speaks his mind without