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Read the passage below and choose the correct answer 131-135
Virtues are. in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action. as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on a parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world - as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain. than that it should be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is in the world to live after the world's option: it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Read the passage below and choose the correct answer 131-135
Virtues are. in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action. as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on a parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world - as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain. than that it should be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is in the world to live after the world's option: it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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