‘And (again we feel ourselves slighted) by those who are naturally or habitually disposed to acts of kindness, if they don't extend their kindness to ourselves: for this has the air of contempt, to consider us (αὐτόν is ‘an individual’ opposed to πάντας) unworthy to be treated in the same way as every one else’.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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