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981. Behold the men that know their duties and want to cultivate worth in themselves: everything that is good will be a duty in their eyes.

982. The comeliness of the worthy is the comeliness of their character: the comeliness of the body addeth nothing to their comeliness.

983. Love to all, sensibility to shame, complaisance, indulgence to the faults of others, and truthfulness, these five are the pillars that support the edifice of a noble character.

984. The virtue of the saint is non-killing : and the virtue of the worthy man is the abstaining from scandalous speech.

985. It is humility that is the strength of the strong: and that is also the armour of the man of worth against his foes. Rh