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Everyone Honors The Wise.

Character May Almost Be Called The Most Effective Means Of Persuasion.

For Even They Who Compose Treatises Of Medicine Or Natural Philosophy In Verse Are Denominated Poets: Yet Homer And Empedocles Have Nothing In Common Except Their Metre; The Former, Therefore, Justly Merits The Name Of The Poet; While The Other Should Rather Be Called A Physiologist Than A Poet.

The Man Who Confers A Favour Would Rather Not Be Repaid In The Same Coin.

The Probable Is What Usually Happens.