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46 - Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne · Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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  Speaker 1: Section forty six of selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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  Speaker 1: by Micheliquem de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Read by Pamel Andagami
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  Speaker 1: of Managing the Will, Part three, How often have I
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  Speaker 1: done myself a manifest injustice to avoid the hazard of
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  Speaker 1: having yet a worse done me by the judges? After
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  Speaker 1: an age of vexations, dirty and vile practices more enemies
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  Speaker 1: to my nature than fire or the rack. A man
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  Speaker 1: should be an enemy to all lawsuits as much as
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  Speaker 1: he may, and I know not whether not something more,
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  Speaker 1: for tis not only liberal, but sometimes also advantageous too
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  Speaker 1: a little to recede from one's right Cicero, were we wise,
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  Speaker 1: we ought to rejoice and boast, as I one day
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  Speaker 1: heard a young gentleman of a good family, very innocently
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  Speaker 1: do that his mother had lost her cause, as if
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  Speaker 1: it had been a cough, a fever, or something very troublesome.
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  Speaker 1: To keep even the favors that fortune might have given
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  Speaker 1: me through relationship or acquaintance with those who have sovereign
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  Speaker 1: authority in those affairs, I have very conscientiously and very
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  Speaker 1: carefully avoided employing them to the prejudice of others, and
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  Speaker 1: of advancing my pretensions above their true right. In fine,
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  Speaker 1: I have so much prevailed by my endeavors, and happily
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  Speaker 1: I may say it that I am to this day
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  Speaker 1: of virgin from all suits in law, though I have
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  Speaker 1: had very fair offers made me, and with very just title.
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  Speaker 1: Would I have hearkened to them, and a virgin from
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  Speaker 1: quarrels too. I have almost passed over a long life
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  Speaker 1: without any offensive moment, either active or passive, or without
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  Speaker 1: ever hearing a worse word than my own name a
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  Speaker 1: rare favor of heaven. Our greatest agitations have ridiculous springs
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  Speaker 1: and causes. What ruin did our last Duke of Burgundy
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  Speaker 1: run into about a cartload of sheepskins? And was not
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  Speaker 1: the graving of a seal the first and principal cause
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest commotion that this machine of the world
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  Speaker 1: ever underwent Footnote the civil war between Marius and Sullah,
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  Speaker 1: for Pompey and Caesar were but the offsets and continuation
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  Speaker 1: of the two others. And I have in my time
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  Speaker 1: seen the wisest heads in this kingdom assembled with great
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  Speaker 1: ceremony and at the public expense, about treaties and agreements
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  Speaker 1: of which the true decision in the meantime absolutely depended
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  Speaker 1: upon the lady's cabinet, cometl and the inclination of some
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  Speaker 1: foolish woman. The poets very well understood this when they
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  Speaker 1: put all Greece and Asia to fire and sword about
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  Speaker 1: an apple. Inquire why that man hazards his life and
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  Speaker 1: honor upon the fortune of his rapier and dagger. Let
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  Speaker 1: him acquaint you with the occasion of the quarrel. He
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  Speaker 1: cannot do it without blushing. Tis so idle and frivolous.
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  Speaker 1: A little thing will engage you in it. But being
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  Speaker 1: once embarked, all the chords draw. Great provisions are then required,
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  Speaker 1: more hard and more important. How much easier is it
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  Speaker 1: not to enter in than it is to get out?
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  Speaker 1: Now we should proceed contrary to the read, which, at
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  Speaker 1: its first springing produces a long and straight shoot, but afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: as if tired and out of breath, it runs into
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  Speaker 1: and frequent joints and knots, as so many pauses, which
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate that it has no more its first vigor and firmness.
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  Speaker 1: Twour better to begin gently and coldly, and to keep
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  Speaker 1: one's breath and vigorous efforts for the height and stress
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  Speaker 1: of the business. We guide affairs in their beginnings and
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  Speaker 1: have them in our own power. But afterward, when they
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  Speaker 1: are once at work, tis day that guide and govern us,
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  Speaker 1: and we are to follow them. Yet do I not
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  Speaker 1: mean to say that this council has discharged me of
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  Speaker 1: all difficulty, and that I have not often had enough
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  Speaker 1: to do to curb and restrain my passions. They are
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  Speaker 1: not always to be governed according to the measure of occasions,
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  Speaker 1: and often have their entries very sharp and violent, but
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  Speaker 1: still good fruit and profit may thence be reaped, except
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  Speaker 1: for those who, in well doing are not sad satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with any benefit. If reputation be wanting foreign truth, such
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  Speaker 1: an effect is not valued, but by everyone to himself.
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  Speaker 1: You are better contented, but not more esteemed, seeing you
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  Speaker 1: reformed yourself before you got into the whirl of the dance,
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  Speaker 1: or that the provocative matter was in sight. Yet not
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  Speaker 1: in this only, but in all other duties of life. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the way of those who aim at honor is very
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  Speaker 1: different from that they proceed by who propose to themselves
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  Speaker 1: order and reason. I find some who rashly and furiously
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  Speaker 1: rush into the lists and cool in the course. As
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  Speaker 1: Plutarch says, that those who, through false shame are soft
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  Speaker 1: and facile to grant whatever is desired of them, are
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  Speaker 1: afterwards as facial to break their word and to recant.
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  Speaker 1: So he who enters lightly into a quarrel is apt
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  Speaker 1: to go as lightly out of it. The same difficulty
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  Speaker 1: that keeps me from entering into it, would, when once
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  Speaker 1: hot and engaged in quarrel, incite me to maintain it
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  Speaker 1: with great obstinacy and resolution. Tis the tyranny of custom.
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  Speaker 1: When a man is once engaged, he must go through
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  Speaker 1: with it or die undertake coldly said bias, but pursueth
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  Speaker 1: ardor for want of prudence, men fall into want of courage,
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  Speaker 1: which is still more intolerable. Most accommodations of the quarrels
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  Speaker 1: of these days of ours are shameful and false. We
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  Speaker 1: only seek to save appearances, and in the meantime betray
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  Speaker 1: and disavow our true intentions. We salve over the fact.
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  Speaker 1: We know very well how we said the thing, and
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  Speaker 1: in what sense we spoke it, and the company know it,
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  Speaker 1: and our friends whom we have wished to make sensible
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  Speaker 1: of our advantage. Understand it well enough too. Tis at
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  Speaker 1: the expense of our frankness and of the honor of
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  Speaker 1: our courage, that we disown our thoughts and seek refuge
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  Speaker 1: in falsities to make matters up. We give ourselves the
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  Speaker 1: lie to excuse the lie we have given to another.
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  Speaker 1: You are not to consider if your word or action
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  Speaker 1: may admit of another interpretation, tis your own true and
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  Speaker 1: sincere interpretation your real meaning in what you said or
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  Speaker 1: did that you are thenceforward to maintain whatever it costs.
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  Speaker 1: You men, speak to your virtue and conscience, which are
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  Speaker 1: not things to be put under a mask. Let us
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  Speaker 1: leave these pitiful ways and expedients to the jugglers of
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  Speaker 1: the law. The excuses and reparations that I see every
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  Speaker 1: day made and given to repair indiscretion seem to me
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  Speaker 1: more scandalous than the indiscretion itself. It were better to
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  Speaker 1: affront your adversary a second time than to offend yourself
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  Speaker 1: by giving him so unmanly a satisfaction. You have braved
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  Speaker 1: him in your heat and anger, and you would flatter
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  Speaker 1: and appease him in your cooler and better sense, and
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  Speaker 1: by that means lay yourself lower and at his feet
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  Speaker 1: whom before you pretended to overtop. I do not find
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  Speaker 1: anything a gentleman can say so vicious in him as
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  Speaker 1: unsaying what he has said is infamous, when to unsay
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  Speaker 1: it is authoritatively extracted from him. For as much as
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  Speaker 1: obstinacy is more excusable in a man of honor than pusillanimity,
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  Speaker 1: passions are as easy for me to evade as they
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  Speaker 1: are hard for me to moderate. Ex conduntur fauchiliusanimo quam temperantour.
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  Speaker 1: He who cannot attain the noble stoical and passibility, let
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  Speaker 1: him secure himself in the bosom of this popular stolidity
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  Speaker 1: of mine. What they performed by virtue, I inure myself
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  Speaker 1: to do by temperament. The middle region harbors storms and tempests.
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  Speaker 1: The two extremes of philosophers and peasants concur in tranquility
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  Speaker 1: and happiness, says Virgil. Happy is he who has discovered
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  Speaker 1: the causes of things and tramples underfoot, all fear, all
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  Speaker 1: concern as to inexorable fate, or as to the roaring
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  Speaker 1: of greedy acorn. He is blessed who knows the country
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  Speaker 1: gods pan Old Sylvanus, and the sister nymphs. The births
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  Speaker 1: of all things are weak and tender, and therefore we
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  Speaker 1: should have our eyes intent on beginnings. For as when
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  Speaker 1: in its infancy the danger is not perceived, so when
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  Speaker 1: it is grown up, the remedy is as little to
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  Speaker 1: be found. I had every day encountered a million of
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  Speaker 1: crosses harder to digest than the progress of ambition, than
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  Speaker 1: it has been hard for me to curb the natural
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  Speaker 1: propension that inclined me to it. I ever justly feared
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  Speaker 1: to raise my head too high horus. All public actions
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  Speaker 1: are subject to various and uncertain interpretations, for too many
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  Speaker 1: heads judge of them. Some say of this civic employment
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  Speaker 1: of mine, and I am willing to say a word
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  Speaker 1: or two about it, not that it is worth so much,
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  Speaker 1: but to give an account of my manner and such
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  Speaker 1: things that I have behaved myself in it, as a
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  Speaker 1: man not sufficiently easy to be moved, and with a
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  Speaker 1: languishing affection. And they have some color for what they say.
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  Speaker 1: I endeavored to keep my mind, did my thoughts in
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  Speaker 1: repose kum semper natura tomatium my tacte, yam quietus. And
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  Speaker 1: if they sometimes lash out upon some rude and sensible
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  Speaker 1: impression tis in truth without my advice. Yet from this
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  Speaker 1: natural heaviness of mine, men ought not to conclude a
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  Speaker 1: total inability in me, For want of care and want
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  Speaker 1: of sense are two very different things, and much less
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  Speaker 1: any unkindness or ingratitude toward that corporation who employed the
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  Speaker 1: utmost means they had in their power to oblige me,
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  Speaker 1: both before they knew me and after. And they did
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  Speaker 1: much more for me in choosing me anew than in
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  Speaker 1: conferring that honor upon me. At first, I wish them
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  Speaker 1: all imaginable good, and assuredly, had occasion been there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing I would have spared for their service. I did
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  Speaker 1: for them as I would have done for myself. 'tis
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  Speaker 1: a good, warlike and generous people, but capable of obedience
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  Speaker 1: and discipline, and of whom the best use may be
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  Speaker 1: made if well guided. They say also that my administration
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  Speaker 1: passed over without leaving any mark or trace good. They
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  Speaker 1: moreover accuse my cessation in a time when everybody almost
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  Speaker 1: was convicted of doing too much. I am impatient to
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  Speaker 1: be doing where my will spurs me on. But this
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  Speaker 1: itself is an enemy to perseverance. Let him who will
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  Speaker 1: make use of me according to my own way. Employ
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  Speaker 1: me in affairs where vigor and liberty are required, where
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  Speaker 1: a direct, short and moreover a hazardous conduct are necessary.
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  Speaker 1: I may do something, but if it must be long, subtle, laborious, artificial,
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  Speaker 1: and intricate, he had better call ins somebody else. All
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  Speaker 1: important offices are not necessarily difficult. I came prepared to
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  Speaker 1: do somewhat rougher work had there been great occasion, For
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  Speaker 1: it is in my power to do something more than
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  Speaker 1: I do, or than I love to do. I did not,
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  Speaker 1: to my knowledge, omit anything that my duty really required.
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  Speaker 1: I easily forgot those offices that ambition mixes with duty
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  Speaker 1: and palliates with its title. These are they that, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, fill the eyes and ears and give
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  Speaker 1: men the most satisfaction. Not the thing, but the appearance
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  Speaker 1: contents them. If they hear no noise, they think men's sleep.
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  Speaker 1: My humor is no friend to tumult. I could appease
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  Speaker 1: a commotion without commotion, and chastise a disorder without being
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  Speaker 1: myself disorderly. If I stand in need of anger in inflammation,
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  Speaker 1: I borrow it and put it on. My manners are
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  Speaker 1: languid rather faint than sharp. I do not condemn a
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  Speaker 1: magistrate whose sleeps provided the people under his charge sleep
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  Speaker 1: as well as he. The laws in that case sleep too.
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  Speaker 1: For my part, I commend a gliding, staid and silent life.
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  Speaker 1: Nequae submiss someu et abjectam necue say a ferndemn. My
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  Speaker 1: fortune will have it. So I am descended from a
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  Speaker 1: family that has lived without luster or tumult and time
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  Speaker 1: out of mind, particularly ambitious of a character for probity.
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  Speaker 1: Our people nowadays are so bred up to bustle an
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  Speaker 1: ostentation that good nature, moderation, equability, constancy, and such like,
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  Speaker 1: quiet and obscure qualities are no more thought on or regarded.
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  Speaker 1: Rough bodies make themselves felt. The smooth are imperceptibly handled.
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  Speaker 1: Sickness is felt, health little or not at all, no
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  Speaker 1: more than the oils that foment us in comparison of
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  Speaker 1: the pains for which we are fomented. Tis acting for
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  Speaker 1: one's particular reputation and profit, not for the public good.
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  Speaker 1: To refer that to be done in the public squares,
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  Speaker 1: which one may do in the council chamber, and to
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  Speaker 1: noonday what might have been done the night before, and
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  Speaker 1: to be jealous to do that himself, which his colleague
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  Speaker 1: can do as well as he. So were Some surgeons
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  Speaker 1: of Greece wont to perform their operations upon scaffolds in
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  Speaker 1: the sight of the people, to draw more practice and profit.
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  Speaker 1: They think that good rules cannot be understood. But by
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  Speaker 1: the sound of the trumpet, ambition is not a vice
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  Speaker 1: of little people, nor of such modest means as ours.
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  Speaker 1: One said to Alexander, your father will leave you a
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  Speaker 1: great dominion, easy and pacific. This youth was emulous of
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  Speaker 1: his father's victories and of the justice of his government.
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  Speaker 1: He would not have enjoyed the empire of the world
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  Speaker 1: in ease and peace. Alcibiades in Plato had rather die young, beautiful, rich, noble,
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  Speaker 1: and learned, and all this in full excellence, than to
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  Speaker 1: stop short of such condition. This disease is peradventure excusable
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  Speaker 1: in so strong and so full a soul. When wretched
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  Speaker 1: and dwarfish souls gull and deceive themselves and think to
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  Speaker 1: spread their fame for having given right judgment in an affair,
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  Speaker 1: or maintained the discipline of the guard of the gate
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  Speaker 1: of their city, the more they think to exalt their heads,
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  Speaker 1: the more they show their tails. This little well doing
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  Speaker 1: has neither body nor life. It vanishes in the first mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and goes no farther than from one street to another.
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  Speaker 1: Talk of it by all means to your son or
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  Speaker 1: your servant, like that old fellow, who, having no other
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  Speaker 1: auditor of his praises, nor approver of his valor, boasted
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  Speaker 1: to his chambermaid, crying, Oh, Perette, what a brave clever
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  Speaker 1: man hast thou for thy master at the worst, Talk
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  Speaker 1: of it to yourself, like a counselor of my acquaintance, who,
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  Speaker 1: having disgorged a whole cart full of law jargon with
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  Speaker 1: great heat and as great folly, coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: council chamber, was heard very complacently to mutter between his teeth,
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  Speaker 1: No nobis domine, no nob'st said nomini too, o dog Lorean.
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  Speaker 1: He who gets it of nobody else, let him pay
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  Speaker 1: himself out of his own purse. Fame is not prostituted
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  Speaker 1: at so cheap. A rate rare in exemplary actions to
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  Speaker 1: which it is due would not endure the company of
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  Speaker 1: this prodigious crowd of petty daily performances. Marble may exalt
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  Speaker 1: your titles as much as you please for having repaired
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  Speaker 1: a rod of wall or cleansed a public sewer, but
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  Speaker 1: not men of sense. Renown does not follow all good deeds,
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  Speaker 1: if novelty and difficulty be not conjoined, Nay, so much
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  Speaker 1: as mere esteem, according to the Stoics, is not due
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  Speaker 1: to every action that proceeds from virtue. Nor will they
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  Speaker 1: allow them bear thanks who, out of temperance, abstains from
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  Speaker 1: an old, blear eyed hag. Those who have known the
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  Speaker 1: admirable qualities of Scipio Africanus deny him the glory that
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  Speaker 1: Panaetius attributes to him of being abstinent from gifts, as
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  Speaker 1: the glory not so much his as that of the
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  Speaker 1: age he lived in. We have pleasures suitable to our lot.
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  Speaker 1: Let us not usurp those of grandeur. Our own are
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  Speaker 1: more natural, and by so much more solid and sure
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  Speaker 1: as they are lower, if not for that of conscience,
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  Speaker 1: yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition.
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  Speaker 1: Let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown so
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  Speaker 1: low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of people by abject means, and at what
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  Speaker 1: cheap rates soever tis dishonor to be so honored. Let
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  Speaker 1: us learn to be no more greedy than we are
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  Speaker 1: capable of glory. To be puffed up with every action
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  Speaker 1: that is innocent or of use is only for those
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  Speaker 1: with whom such things are extraordinary and rare. They will
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  Speaker 1: value it as it costs them. The more a good
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  Speaker 1: effect makes a noise, the more do I abate of
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  Speaker 1: its goodness, as I suspect that it was more performed
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  Speaker 1: for the noise than upon account of the goodness exposed
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  Speaker 1: upon the stall tis half sold. Those actions have much
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  Speaker 1: more grace and luster that slip from the hand of
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  Speaker 1: him that does them negligently and without noise, and that
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  Speaker 1: some honest man thereafter finds out and raises from the
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  Speaker 1: shade to produce it to the light upon its own account.
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  Speaker 1: All things truly seem more laudable to me that are
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  Speaker 1: performed without ostentation and without the testimony of the people,
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  Speaker 1: says the most ostentatious man that ever lived footnote Cicero.
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  Speaker 1: I had but to conserve and to continue, which are
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  Speaker 1: silent and insensible effects. Innovation is of great luster, but
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  Speaker 1: tis interdicted in this age when we are pressed upon
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  Speaker 1: an have nothing to defend ourselves from but novelties. To
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  Speaker 1: forbear doing is often as generous as to do, but
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  Speaker 1: tis less in the light. And the little good that
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  Speaker 1: I have in me is of this kind. In fine
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  Speaker 1: occasions in this employment of mine, have been confederate with
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  Speaker 1: my humor, and I heartily thank them for it. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any who desires to be sick that he may
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  Speaker 1: see his physician at work, And would not that physician
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  Speaker 1: deserve to be whipped, who should wish the plague among
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  Speaker 1: us that he might put his art in practice. I
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  Speaker 1: have never been of that wicked humor, and common enough
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  Speaker 1: to desire that troubles and disorders in this city should
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  Speaker 1: elevate and honor my government. I have ever heartily contributed
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  Speaker 1: all I could to their tranquility and ease. He who
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  Speaker 1: will not thank me for the order the sweet and
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  Speaker 1: silent calm that has accompanied my administration cannot, however, deprive
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  Speaker 1: me of the share that belongs to me by title
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  Speaker 1: of my good fortune. And I am of such a
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  Speaker 1: composition that I would as willingly be lucky as wise,
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  Speaker 1: and had rather owe my successes purely to the favor
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  Speaker 1: of Almighty God than to any operation of my own
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  Speaker 1: I had sufficiently published to the world my unfitness for
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  Speaker 1: such public offices. But I have something in me yet
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  Speaker 1: worse than incapacity itself, which is that I am not
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  Speaker 1: much displeased at it, and that I do not much
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  Speaker 1: go about to cure it. Considering the course of life
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  Speaker 1: that I have proposed to myself. Neither have I satisfied
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  Speaker 1: myself in this employment. But I have very near arrived
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  Speaker 1: at what I expected from my own performance, and have
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  Speaker 1: much surpassed what I promised them with whom I had
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  Speaker 1: to do. For I am apt to promise something less
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  Speaker 1: than what I am able to do and than what
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  Speaker 1: I hope to make good. I assure myself that I
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  Speaker 1: have left no offense or hatred behind me, to leave
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  Speaker 1: regret or desire for me among them. I at least
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  Speaker 1: know very well that I never much aimed at it.
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  Speaker 1: But says Virgil, should I place confidence in this monster?
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  Speaker 1: Should I be ignorant of the dangers of that seeming
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  Speaker 1: placid sea those now quiet waves? End of section forty six,
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  Speaker 1: read by Pamelinagami, M D. In Encino, California, October twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. End of selected essays of Michel de Montaigne
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  Speaker 1: by michel icem de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton,