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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: passion.
To these remarks Ischomachus replied: You jest, Socrates; but still I
hold to my belief: that man is fond of bricks and mortar who no sooner
has built one house than he must needs sell it and proceed to build
another.
To be sure, Ischomachus (I answered), and for my part I assure you,
upon oath, I, Socrates, do verily and indeed believe[42] you that all
men by nature love (or hold they ought to love) those things
wherebysoever they believe they will be benefited.
[32] Reading {e men pisteuein soi phusei (nomizein) philein tauta
pantas . . .}; and for the "belief" propounded with so much
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