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Answer: The Cynic ideal that material wealth is an obstacle towards the attainment of Happiness is demonstrated in the above passage, �I will make hardships more pleasant for you than the benefits to be obtained from wealth, which men prefer and ask of me, not perceiving that they are entrusting themselves to a tyrant.� The words, (referring to material wealth), �not perceiving that they are entrusting themselves to a tyrant.� display the ideal that through placing importance on material wealth, we are in fact, enslaving ourselves to it. In addition to this, the words, �I will make hardships more pleasant for you than the benefits to be obtained from wealth...� demonstrate the Cynic ideal that Happiness is far more important than material wealth and there is far much more to be gained through it; for example the attainment of Happiness resulting in physical hardships becoming pleasant. |
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