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Certainly, if the mind had no anticipations of posterity, and if it were to confine all its
thoughts within the same limits as those by which the space of our lives is bounded, it would
neither break itself with such severe labours, nor would it be tormented with such cares and
sleepless anxiety, nor would it so often have to fight for its very life. At present there is
a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of
glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our
lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
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