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such a man is five hundred cubits above kingdoms and duchies; he is an absolute monarch in and to himself: "Sapiens, . . . Pol! ipse fingit fortunam sibi;" what remains for him to covet or desire? "Nonne videmus, Nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, quoi Corpore sejunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur, Jucundo sensu, cura semotu' metuque?"
For even these discourses left us by antiquity upon this subject, seem to me flat and poor, in comparison of the sense I have of it, and in this particular, the effects surpass even the precepts of philosophy. "Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico."
Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico. Sat. Next rising morn with double joy we greet, For Plotius, Varius, Virgil, here we meet: Pure spirits these; the world no purer knows, For none my heart with more affection glows: How oft did we embrace, our joys how great! For sure no blessing in the power of fate Can be compared, in sanity of mind, To friends of such companionable kind. Francis.
No. 100. Monday, June 25, 1711. Steele. 'Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico. Hor. A man advanced in Years that thinks fit to look back upon his former Life, and calls that only Life which was passed with Satisfaction and Enjoyment, excluding all Parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in his Infancy.
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