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finally, and most important of all, those who are not spoiled by successes and do not desert their true selves and become arrogant,1 but hold their ground steadfastly as intelligent men, not rejoicing in the good things which have come to them through chance rather than in those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs from their birth. Those who have a character which is in accord, not with one of these things, but with all of them—these, I contend, are wise and complete men, possessed of all the virtues.
1 Cf. Isoc. 12.196-197.