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 "For like hell mouth I loath Who holds not in his words and thoughts one indistinguished troth."

And not only is practice regarded as the culmination of theory, the habit formed upon the active principle, Philosophy, but the question of personal honour is involved in the harmony between creed and deed; and one mark of distinction between sophist and philosopher is that the external apparatus of the former—"his contracted brows and studied gravity of aspect"—do not indicate the possession of the virtues which are the pride of the latter.

Plutarch frequently lays strenuous weight on this point; Seneca, Dion, Aurelius, Epictetus, Apuleius, are crowded with sermons on its importance. And if pure professions are to be carried out into pure actions,