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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: noble beast, but there is that in him makes one fear he will do some
mischief presently past curing.[15] His very virtue makes it hard to
kill the creature, and yet to turn him to account alive is also hard;
so careful must one be, he does not choose the thick of danger to work
irreparable harm. And this, further, doubtless holds of all goods and
chattels, which are at once a trouble and a benefit. If painful to
their owners to possess, they are none the less a source of pain to
part with.
[15] Lit. "good but fearful (i.e. he makes one fear), he will some day
do some desperate mischief."
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