One pure and unalloyed. Damascius says: "for there is none of human qualities worth as much as an unblemished consciousness. For one must coexist with his fellows in proper fashion. Even if the true good were the opposite of the apparent good, one must never consider the latter as more important than the former or place more importance on anything other than the truth -- not the danger of incurring a struggle, or a painful task that deters through fear, or gain of unjust praise, or the intimacy of friendship, or the compulsion of some family relations."