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This is one
of the advantages of the use of maxims, but another is greater; for it makes
speeches ethical. Speeches have this character, in which the moral purpose is
clear. And this is the effect of all maxims, because he who employs them in a
general manner declares his moral preferences; if then the maxims are good, they
show the speaker also to be a man of good character. Let this suffice for what
we had to say concerning maxims, their nature, how many kinds of them there are,
the way they should be used, and what their advantages are.
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