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 1 2 |     common notions of mankind- says,~like a true philosopher,
 2 2 | beneath the earth, as the poet says,~and seeks by conjecture
 3 2 |      plays a part, and does or says anything insincerely and
 4 3 |         imagining what another says,~or does, or thinks. For
 5 4 |      to see what his~neighbour says or does or thinks, but only
 6 4 |        and pure; or as Agathon says, look not round at~the depraved
 7 4 |        things return. The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops; and
 8 4 |       thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou~
 9 4 |    naked: Bread I have not, he says, and I~abide by reason.-
10 6 |      Consider then~what Crates says of Xenocrates himself.~
11 6 |       Heraclitus, I think, who says that they~are labourers
12 7 |       Whatever any one does or says, I must be good, just as
13 7 |       Whatever any one does or says, I must be emerald and keep
14 7 |  mankind.~Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all.- And
15 7 |    Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived
16 8 |         look and judge wisely, says the~philosopher.~ In the
17 9 |      see what~comes.~ Epicurus says, In my sickness my conversation
18 9 |        bodily sufferings, nor, says he, did I talk on such subjects
19 9 |     proper good. Nor did I, he~says, give the physicians an
20 10|       is~instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take
21 10|    back what thou~wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently
22 10|      wilt find just what Plato says, Dwelling within the walls~
23 10|        of spring," as the poet says; then the wind casts them
24 10|        happens; but that which~says, Let my dear children live,
25 11|        and insincere is he who says, I have determined to~deal