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To celebrate someone you love is to remain open and generous toward others, and even to forgive the killer rather than avenge the dead.
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Generosity
Virgil reverses the Iliad's Priam by making generosity and openness lead not to moral reconciliation but to Troy's doom.
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Virgil reverses the Iliad's Priam by making generosity and openness lead not to moral reconciliation but to Troy's doom.
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Jiang interprets the story to mean that kindness from the wealthy is read as stupidity and invites plotting.
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The feast is Jiang's example of old wealth ethics: sudden wealth should be spent so the community shares happiness, not hoarded for private inheritance.
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"Okay, yeah. All right. That's a good point, okay? So, your point is, well, Aeneas loves his friend, Pallas. And as a result, it's..."
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"Okay? And that's what the great books are about. The great books, even Homer and Dante, they really think deeply about what love is..."
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"The day of infamy soon came. The sacred rites were all performed for the victim, the salted meal strewn, the bands tied around my..."
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"Whoever you are, from now on, you've lost the Greeks. Put them out of your mind and you'll be one of us. But answer..."
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"...Troy. So remember in the Iliad, it is because of Prime's generosity, his ability to forgive Achilles, leads to the great friendship between Priam..."
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"Okay, so he's very rich. He's very generous to people. And then he's asking himself, Are they really my friends? Or are they being..."
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"He went to his neighbor who was also wealthy, but they had never had close relations. He asked him what his advice might be...."
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"that Jew replied that it was to test those who really loved him that he did it, and that I wanted to see if..."
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"So if you're very wealthy and you're nice to people, they'll think you're stupid and naive, and they'll plot against you. Okay? That's the..."
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"...mattered was your reputation with the community. What mattered was your generosity. If you got rich one day, you made sure that everyone in..."
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"This is true. This is true in China for most of Chinese history. Right? If you come from a Chinese village, you come to..."
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