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Perhaps in Plato's circle in Athens, where we kalokagathiates live on our rents. Otherwise, doesn't one show better with simple indifference to the matter? It seems to me that boasting demonstrates an anxiety about the world's opinion.

But I do like Yeats's line in the poem prefixed to Responsibilities: "Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun."

(Full disclosure: yes, I too was a philosophy major.)

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