3. But let us understand what trickery they scheme, what evils they contrive, whose cruelty makes no headway out in the open; what they do when they display riches is to sow the seeds of avarice; in order to spread pride they design ostentation; they promote individuality in order to exclude what has to do with life in common; in order to foster anger they incite lawsuits; in order to do violence to kindness they stir up alienation of affection; they invent philosophy in order to make human beings
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