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method. No man, however, can read his Cato 
Major, his De Amicitia, his ‘Tufculan Difputations, 
without moral improvement; his letters, and all 
his writings, abound in animating and interefting 
reflexions, in excellent maxims. There is a point, 
a force, a climax too in his obfervations, which 
cannot be too greatly admired, and carries. the 
mind along with it, and which gives a novelty even 
to what is common place in itfelf: 
‘* Et nomen pacis dulce eft, & ipfa res falutaris ; 
fed inter pacem & fervitutem plurimum intereft: 
Pax eft tranquilla libertas, fervitus poftremum malo- 
rum omnium, non modo bello, fed morte etiam 
repellendum,” 
, Cic. in M. Ant, 
“ Sin aliquando neceffitas nos ad ea detruferit, 
que noftri ingenii non erunt: omnis adhibenda 
erit cura, meditatio, diligentia, ut ea fi non decoré 
at quam minimum indecoré facere poffimus,” 
Cic. de Off, 
In the writings of the Poets, the moft ufeful and 
beautiful reflexions are expreffed with a fimplicity 
which delights, or a force which penetrates the 
heart; the former is chiefly the characteriftic of the. 
Greek, the latter of the Roman Mufe: 
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