An idea from Parallel Lives

You can love a perfume and still look down on the man who made it. Admiring a product rarely makes you want to be its maker. Good deeds work differently. Reading about them stirs “an emulation and eagerness that may lead them on to imitation.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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