Kitap 2
7.2
Let it then be taken to be the feeling in accordance with which one who has it is said to render a service to one who needs it, not in return for something nor in the interest of him who renders it, but in that of the recipient. And the favor will be great if the recipient is in pressing need, or if the service or the times and circumstances are important or difficult, or if the benefactor is the only one, or the first who has rendered it, or has done so in the highest degree.
7.3
By needs I mean longings, especially for things the failure to obtain which is accompanied by pain; such are the desires, for instance, love; also those which arise in bodily sufferings and dangers, for when a man is in pain or danger he desires something. That is why those who help a man who is poor or an exile, even if the service be ever so small, are regarded with favor owing to the urgency and occasion of the need; for instance, the man who gave the matProbably given to a beggar or vagrant who had nothing to sleep on. to another in the Lyceum.
7.4
It is necessary then, if possible, that the service should be in the same directionThat is, should have in view the satisfaction of urgent wants and desires (Cope).; if not, that it should apply to cases of similar or greater need.
