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properly gilded, and tliis I trust a soldier of our camp 
has found by this time. I am convinced, that if all men 
were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery 
would be unknown. These take place only in communi¬ 
ties where some have got more than is sufficient while 
others have not enough. The Pope’s Homers would 
soon get properly distributed.—* 
“ Nec bella fuerunt, 
Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes.” 
‘‘Nor wars did men molest, 
When only beechen bowls were in request.” 
“ You who govern public affairs, what need have you 
to employ punishments ? Love virtue, and the people 
will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are 
like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like 
the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, 
bends.” 
