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Examples
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I can well see that he might have upset a fair number of people, and if "philotimo" comes into it, some of them might have considered direct action in return.
SofiaEcho RSS feed 2009
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It is as much a question of philotimo as fighting for your country.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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The great ineffables: solidarity, community, the Revolution, honor, machismo, philotimo, wu de, an anguish that lets one shrug off a lifetime of subservience and live seventy years of what should have been a free life in three days of one of history’s orgasms, whatever, trumps such concerns.
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