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  • An extreme disparity between them

    “…Our practice is so blind that we make little or no account of it; whereas if we consider a peasant and a king, a nobleman and a plebeian, a magistrate and a private citizen, a rich man and a pauper, there immediately appears to our eyes an extreme disparity between them, though they are different,…

  • What matters is how we see it

    “To judge of great and lofty things we need a soul of the same caliber; otherwise we attribute to them the vice that is our own. A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see the thing, but how we see it.” I. 14 “That the taste of…