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 1  II,  7|        mean, magnificence (for the magnificent man differs from the liberal
 2  IV,  2|          of the case is not called magnificent (e.g. the man who can say "
 3  IV,  2|           in great things. For the magnificent man is liberal, but the
 4  IV,  2|     liberal man is not necessarily magnificent. The deficiency of this
 5  IV,  2|          of these vices later.~The magnificent man is like an artist; for
 6  IV,  2|            Now the expenses of the magnificent man are large and fitting.
 7  IV,  2|            even exceed it. And the magnificent man will spend such sums
 8  IV,  2|          necessary, then, that the magnificent man be also liberal. For
 9  IV,  2|         implied in the name of the magnificent man-his bigness, as it were-is
10  IV,  2|     expense he will produce a more magnificent work of art. For a possession
11  IV,  2|         Hence a poor man cannot be magnificent, since he has not the means
12  IV,  2|     prestige. Primarily, then, the magnificent man is of this sort, and
13  IV,  2|         and counter-gifts; for the magnificent man spends not on himself
14  IV,  2| resemblance to votive offerings. A magnificent man will also furnish his
15  IV,  2|         its kind, and what is most magnificent absolutely is great expenditure
16  IV,  2|          great object, but what is magnificent here is what is great in
17  IV,  2|        beautiful ball or bottle is magnificent as a gift to a child, but
18  IV,  2|           is characteristic of the magnificent man, whatever kind of result
19  IV,  2|    expenditure.~Such, then, is the magnificent man; the man who goes to