Sol 5.6

  1. Had you been innately fashioned for generos—

    —ity, you would be like wormwood, compelled by its nature;

  2. or had you been purchasing prai—

    —se, your generosity would have been mere trade.

  3. But you deemed generosity the most beau—

    —tiful sight that human eyes have ever seen.

  4. It borrows no adornment

    from elsewhere; rather, its beauty shines from within.

  5. So you practiced it not for prai—

    —se, nor from a nature within you that compels;

  6. but because the beauties of bene—

    —ficence are the very essence of beneficence.

  7. Kindness is known as good by its very na—

    —ture, and wrongdoing is known as wrong.

  8. You give, and whatever you with—

    —hold, you do so in full power, free to choose.

Sol 5.6