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 After many illustrations of Envy, in which his contemporaries figure, the "Discourse" concludes thus:—

The Discourse on "Moderation" contains much excellent though not very original advice, besides a lament that his own too-unrestrained desire to rise in the world should have led him to waste his time in courts. He thus lectures the Sybarites of Paris:—