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There is one advantage, among many others, which a man, who 

 lives w4th himfelf, enjoys; and that is independency upon common 

 opinion, which makes the happinefs or mifery of moil men; for, be- 

 ing a philofopher, and confequently knowing himfelf better than he 

 can be known by any other man, he can fay to himfelf, what Ho- 

 race fays to a learned friend, 



Neque alils de te, plus quam tibi, credere par eft. 



What I have faid in this chapter upon the fubje£t of happinefs, 

 and particularly that happinefs which is more than human, having 

 fomething divine in it, I have taken, like many other things, from 

 Ariftotle, particularly from the firft fix chapters of his firft book De 

 Morihus; and from the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and loth, chapters of his 

 loth and laft book of the fame treatife ; — from the 4th, 5th, 6th, 

 7th, and 8th, chapters of the firft book of the Magfia Moralia ; and, 

 laftly, from the 7th chapter of his 14th book of Metaphyfics, — 

 Thofe chapters contain the fineft perhaps of all Ariftotle's writings, 

 both for beauty of fentiments and of di(^ion. 



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