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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: lends embellishment," etc.
Since then, by aid of equal ministrations, you are privileged to win
not equal but far deeper gratitude: it would seem to follow,
considering the vastly wider sphere of helpfulness which lies before
you as administrators, and the far grander scale of your largesses, I
say it naturally pertains to you to find yourselves much more beloved
than ordinary mortals; or if not, why not?
Hiero took up the challenge and without demur made answer: For this
good reason, best of poets, necessity constrains us, far more than
ordinary people, to be busybodies. We are forced to meddle with
concerns which are the very fount and springhead of half the hatreds
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