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For if
any one assumes to himself to correct the manners of others, and to reprove their
faults, who will pardon him, if he himself turn aside in any particular from the
strict line of duty? Wherefore, a citizen of this sort is the more to he praised and
beloved by all men for this reason also,—that he does not only remove a
worthless citizen from the republic, but he also promises and binds himself to be
such a man as to be compelled, not only by an ordinary inclination to virtue and
duty, but by even some more unavoidable principle, to live virtuously and
honourably.
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