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Rules of Life (1188-1202).
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188.
If you governed your body by the rules of virtue you would not walk
on all fours in this world.
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
[Footnote: The first sentence is obscure. Compare Nos. 825, 826.]
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189.
Savage he is who saves himself.
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190.
We ought not to desire the impossible. [Footnote: The writing of
this note, which is exceedingly minute, is reproduced in facsimile
on Pl. XLI No. 5 above the first diagram.
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191.
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
Justice requires power, insight, and will; and it resembles the
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