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What can be more beautifull than this custom of as it were sifting through the whole day? Seneca says, I use this custom, & daily as it were, try myself. When according to my custom I bid my Wife to put out the candle, I scrutinize every thing that has happened to me through the whole day, all my sayings and doings, I abscond from nothing, I pass over nothing Horrace also did this as he says of himself that he did it often. This was Pythagoras's manner of receiving & of instructing his disciples. Those youths who came to him for his instruction, he endeavoured to find out their manners & nature, by their
