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Leuctrican battle. but much slower will fame forsake
Curius, Fabricius, Calatinus, the two Scipio's the two ——
Africani, Maximus, Marcellus, Paullus, Cato, Laelius,
innumerable others: any one who has imitated them,
not judging of their Actions by popular fame, but the
true praise of good men will offer himself to death (if
occasion requires it) with a steady mind: in which we
know there is either the Sumum bonum, or at least
no Evil. more over, he would chuse to die in the Midst
of good fortune: for the heaping up of good things is not
so delightful, as the losing of them is disagreable. this
seems to be the meaning of a Speech of a Lacanion, who,
when Diagorasa Rhodian, One yr had been himself a noble
conqueror at the Olympic games, had seen his two sons
conquerors at the same games, went up to him and having
complimented him upon the Occasion, die, says he.
"Diagoras" for you can not go to heaven." the Grecians
think or rather did then think those great things, and
perhaps too much so: and he who said that to Diagoras
reckoning it a prodigious happiness for three conquerors
in the Olympic games to be all in one family, thought
that fortune could never do more than she had already
done for him, and that from hence forward he must
have worse than he had before, and therefore 'twould
be better for him to die then,— but I had answered

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	118	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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