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Now then that we have said enough in our sketchy kind of way on

these subjects; I mean, on the Virtues, and also on Friendship

and Pleasure; are we to suppose that our original purpose is

completed? Must we not rather acknowledge, what is commonly said,

that in matters of moral action mere Speculation and Knowledge is

not the real End but rather Practice: and if so, then neither in

respect of Virtue is Knowledge enough; we must further strive to

have and exert it, and take whatever other means there are of

becoming good.