Each of us is, as it were,13 circumscribed by many circles.… The first, indeed, and most proximate circle is that which everyone describes about his own mind as a centre.… The second from this, and which is at a greater distance from the centre, but comprehends the first circle, is that in which parents, brothers, wife, and children are arranged.… Next to this is that which contains the common people, then that which comprehends those of the same tribe, afterwards that which contains the citizens.… But the outermost and greatest circle, and which comprehends all the other circles, is that of
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