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416 A Soul conversant with Virtue, resembles a perpetual Fountain: for it is clear, and gentle, and potable, and sweet, and communicative, and rich, and harmless, and innocent.

you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

is better to offend seldom (owning it when we do), and act often wisely, than to say, we seldom err, and offend frequently.

your Passions, that they may not punish you.

not so much ashamed of what is void of Glory, as studious to shun what is void of Truth.

you would be well spoken of, learn to speak well of others. And, when you have learned to speak well of them, endeavour likewise to do well to them; and thus you will reap the Fruit of being well spoken of by them.

is the Name of Virtue; and Slavery, of Vice: and both these are Actions of Choice. But neither of them belongs to Things, in which Choice hath no Share. But Fortune is accustomed to dispose at her Pleasure of the Body, and those Things relating to the Body in which Choice hath no Share. For no one is a Slave, whose Choice is free. Fortune is an evil Chain to the Body; and Vice, to the Soul. For he whose Body is unbound, and whose Soul is chained, is a Slave. On the contrary, he whose Body is chained, and his Soul unbound, is free. The Chain of the Body, Nature unbinds by Death; and Vice, by Money: the Chain