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And it will be the easier to him
perhaps on this account that I have mounted up hither without having any
family interest to push me on and relying solely on my self; but his
admirable virtues will be assisted by the recommendation which the virtues
of his ancestors supply him with.
However, to return to Plancius, he has never been absent from the city unless
any lot which he may have drawn or some law, or some necessity compelled him
to be so. He did not excel in those things in which some men perhaps do but
he did excel in diligence, he did excel in paying attention to his friends,
he did excel in liberality. He kept himself before men's eyes; he stood for
offices; he has followed at all times that course of life by which, while
there is less danger that way of incurring unpopularity, the greatest number
of new men have attained the same honours which he has.
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