But of the opposites, as shown in our list, the quality consisting in thinking oneself worthy of great goods when not worthy is vanity for we give the name of vain to those who think themselves worthy of great things though they are not; but the quality of not thinking oneself worthy of great things though one is, we call mean spiritedness for it is held to be the mark of the mean spirited not to think himself worthy of anything great though he possesses that for which he would justly be deemed worthy of it; hence, it follows that magnanimity is a mean between vanity and mean spiritedness.