A Few Days in Athens Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in
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' Be perfect, or be as you are. 1 allow of no degrees of virtue, so care not for the degrees of vice. Your ruin, if it must be, let it be in all its horrors, in all its vileness : let it attract no pity, no sympathy: let it be seen in all its naked deformity, and excite the full measure of its merited abhorrence and disgust. ' Thus says the sublime Zeno, who sees only man as he should be. TJjus says the mild Epicurus, who sees man as he is : With all his weak- nesses, all his errors, all his si...ns, still owning fellowship with him, still rejoicing in his wel- fare and sighing over his misfortunes : I call from my Gardens to the thoughtless, the head- A FEW DAYS IN ATHENS. 89 strong, and the idle. ' Where do ye wander, and what do ye seek ? Is it pleasure 1 behold it here. Is it ease ? enter and repose. ' Thus do I court them from the table of drunkenness and the bed of licentiousness : I gently awaken their sleeping faculties, and draw the veil from their understandings. ' My sons ! do you seek pleasure ?
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