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 1  II,  7|         short in contrary ways; the prodigal exceeds in spending and
 2  II,  8| self-indulgent, and the liberal man prodigal relatively to the mean man,
 3  II,  8|              mean relatively to the prodigal. Hence also the people at
 4  IV,  1|          not its proper use; for a "prodigal" means a man who has a single
 5  IV,  1|      wasting his substance; since a prodigal is one who is being ruined
 6  IV,  1|      objects; and he who exceeds is prodigal. Hence we do not call despots
 7  IV,  1|        Hence we do not call despots prodigal; for it is thought not easy
 8  IV,  1|            saying of Simonides.~The prodigal errs in these respects also;
 9  IV,  1|         foolish one. The man who is prodigal in this way is thought much
10  IV,  1|          not even himself.~But most prodigal people, as has been said,
11  IV,  1|          view to what is noble.~The prodigal man, then, turns into what
12 VII,  9|           the continent man, as the prodigal is in a way like the liberal