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1 Again, some people think that virtue and vice are corporeal.Aimed at the Stoics, who referred all qualities to the body. Cf. Plutarch, Moralia, 1084 A. This piece of ignorance is disgraceful, perhaps, but it is not worthy of wailings or lamentations. But consider judgements and assumptions that are like this: Poor virtue! A mere name thou art, I find, But I did practise thee as real!Author unknown; cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. p. 910, Adespota, No. 374. and thereby I gave up wrongdoing which is productive of wealth, and licentiousness which begets every sort of pleasure. These it is right and proper that we pity, and at the same time loathe, because their presence engenders many distempers and emotions, like maggots and grubs, in men’s souls.