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EPICURUS'S great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set
forth a book with this title to it, that according to the tenets
of the other philosophers it is impossible to live. Now
what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into
writing by me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things have happened to be spoken afterwards
in the walks in further opposition to his party, I thought
it not amiss to recollect them also, if for no other reason,
yet for this one, that those who will needs be contradicting
other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily
over the discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor by tearing out one word here and another there,
or by falling foul upon particular passages without the
books, to impose upon the ignorant and unlearned.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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