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9 Mansuetude when a virtue is on extra regarding prudence Like modesty is flattering to the self esteem of the towards whom it is exercised It is with a deeper tinge of humility or which produces the same effect upon the object it modesty influenced by timidity it goes in deference and submission than modesty does and when suffering is brought into action becomes patience or longanimity is a quality ordinarily virtuous vibrating as it were between other ordinarily virtuous qualities but whose amount of virtue can only be estimated by the application of the Deontological tests The meekness of a man whose meekness diminishes his own enjoyments and adds less to the happiness of others than the amount he sacrifices of his own that meekness being imprudent and improvident is the contrary of virtuous The meekness of a man whose meekness is pernicious to others and useless to himself is unbenevolent and the contrary of virtuous Meekness is to a considerable extent a natural personal gift and it is only to such
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