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57. Let not thy Thoughts depart from Truth.

58. Love Righteoufnefs and Truth. 59. Miferies have Power upon Man, and not Man upon Miferies. 60. Mifery will be the end of med-ling with many Matters.

61. Nothing can corrupt a Mind wholly dedicated to Vertue.

62. Never open thy Gates to Flat terers and Diffemblers.

63. Praise little, but difpraise less. 64. Piety is abfolutely necessary to Happiness.

65. Piety is the best Armour.

66. Perform whatfoever thou Promifeft; but promise nothing unlawful.

67. Praife no Man as Blessed and Happy, till thou fee'ft the End of his Life.

68. Popular Applause foon perisheth, but true Honour'never dieth. 69. Quietnefs is fure, but Rafhnefs is dangerous..

70. Rejoyce not at any Man's Calamity.

71. Refrain from foul Language.. 772. Reverence thy Parents.

73 Receive patiently the Words of Correction, although they feem grievous.

74. Reproach not thy Friend, though he recede from thee a little. 75. Reftore what is committed to thy Trust.

76. Riotous Living oft brings Póverty and Contempt.

77. Repentance is the end of Filthy

Amours.

78. Speak well of that which is good.

79. The Mother of extream Mifchief, is Wordly Wisdom..

180. Take heed unto thy felf, and be circumfpect.

81. Take patiently whatsoever befalleth thee.

82. There is more truft in Honesty than in an Oath.

83. The Tongue is the Bewrayer of the Heart.

84. Too much Self-love is the caufe of much Evil.

85. To do good, is the best Course of Life.

86. Think first, then Speak, and at laft Perform.

87. To

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87. To fee, is a small matter; but to foresee, is a token of Wisdom.

88. True Vertue stands not in Saying, but in Doing well.

89. The Kindness of Flatterers is chafed away by Adverfity.

90. To be exalted with good Suc cefs, is to run in a flippery Way.

91. Vertue is the Beauty, Vice the Deformity of the Soul:

92. Vertue is best try'd by Adverfity. 93. Vertue is an Armour, none can pierce, or take from good Men.

94. Wicked Hopes, like ill Guides, deceive a Man, and lead him into Sin. 95. Whofoever thou art, learn to know thy felf.

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96. What thou takeft ill in thy Neighbour, do not thy felf.

97. Where Senfuality reigneth, Reason taketh no place.

98. Walk not in the way of Hatred.

99. Wifdom is a Vertuous Compofure of the Soul.

100. Wrath and Haftiness are veBy Evil Counsellors.

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Giving a brief Account (according to Hiftory) what the Authors were, and of fome Remarkable Paffages in the Lives of feveral of them, and in what Time of the World they lived; Beginning, and more largely Treating of that Wife Philofopher Socrates.

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OCRATES, the Son of Sophronifcus, a Stonecutter, and Phanareta a Midi wife, was born at Athens: It was told his Father, he should have the Guide of his Life within him, which should be more to him than Five Hundred Masters. He was a Man of wonderful Wisdom, an Hearer of Anaxagoras; and after fome time spent in Natural Philofophy, he gave himfelf to the Study of Moral and Divine Things, teaching Vertue openly, and diligently following the fame in his Life; inftructing People freely in juft, grave, and vertuous Manners, and got his Living by his Hand-labour, from which Crito at last deliver'd him, because of his Wisdom,

Wisdom, and became his Scholar So also many others came to hear and learn of him, as Plato, Antifthenes, Xenophon, Ariftippus, &c. Philofophers of Note in that time. He used fome-times, through Earneftnefs of Speech, to fhake his Head, ftir his Fingers, yea, fometimes pull himfelf, to add the more Force to his Words. He had a great Gift both in perfwading, and alfo in dif-fwading.

As to his Perfon, he was faid to be very Unhandfome, of a melan-cholly Complexion, Bald, a flat Nofe, fevere down-caft Look, difficult in Speech, and of few Words, but efficacious; fervent in Difpute, patient when Reproached; his Conftitution ftrong and hardy, which he preferved by Temperance; bearing Cold and Hunger upon occafion; his Habit the fame in Winter as Summer. He was of a constant Mind, and invincible Reason; he was also frugal and con-tinent; when many times walking about the Market, or Places where multitudes of things were to be fold, he was wont to fay after this manner, Good Lord, how many things are

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