However, people are not good at judging what counts as small, because one‘s own good, being close, appears large, while another‘s good, being distant, appears small.
...wanting to perceive oneself is wanting oneself to have certain attributes.
...one always desires to live because one always desires to know, and because one wishes to be oneself the object known.
Perceiving a friend, then, must be in a manner perceiving oneself, and in a manner knowing oneself.
...a man who remembers former prosperity suffers more than if he thought he had always fared badly.
