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 1      I, 5 |      constituent parts are:-good birth, plenty of friends, good
 2      I, 5 |          body are internal. Good birth, friends, money, and honour
 3      I, 5 |         parts of it is.~Now good birth in a race or a state means
 4      I, 5 |         that we admire.~The good birth of an individual, which
 5      I, 6 |          is appropriate to their birth or capacity, and whatever
 6      I, 9 |        accessories, such as good birth and education, merely helps
 7      I, 13|       eternal: none can date its birth.~And so Empedocles, when
 8      I, 15|    eternal: (none can date their birth.)~Not I would fear the wrath
 9     II, 2 |    respected by his inferiors in birth, in capacity, in goodness,
10     II, 8 | disposition, social standing, or birth; for in all these cases
11     II, 9 |        the goods of nature-noble birth, beauty, and so on. Again,
12     II, 10|         equals" I mean equals in birth, relationship, age, disposition,
13     II, 12|       old age. By fortune I mean birth, wealth, power, and their
14     II, 15|       First let us consider Good Birth. Its effect on character
15     II, 15|        add to the pile, and good birth implies ancestral distinction.
16     II, 23|         assert that the gods had birth is as impious as to say