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his city, were things that in any way derogated from the honour.html">honour of his
And amongst so many admirable actions of Scipio the grandfather, a person
gives him a greater grace than to see him carelessly and childishly
wherein two persons contend which of them shall soonest pick up some
meanest and most popular actions of men. And his head full of that
Sicily, and attending philosophical lectures, to the extent of arming the
in Socrates than that, old as he was, he found time to make himself
spent. This same man.html">man.html">man was seen in an ecstasy, standing upon his feet a
surprised and absorbed by some profound thought. He was the first,
Alcibiades, oppressed with the enemy, to shield him with his own body,
who, in the Delian battle, raised and saved Xenophon when fallen from his
unworthy a spectacle, first presented himself to rescue Theramenes, whom
desisted not from his bold enterprise but at the remonstrance of
was seen, when courted by a beauty with whom he was in love, to maintain
walk upon ice, with bare feet; to wear the same robe, winter and summer;
eat no more at a feast than at his own private dinner. He was seen, for
indocility of his children, and the nails of his wife, with the same
and poison. But was this man obliged to drink full bumpers by any rule
advantage in drinking, remained. And he never refused to play at
well; for all actions, says philosophy, equally become and equally honour
be weary of presenting the image of this great man in all the patterns
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