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Of Continence.

I. The works.

Continence is the being able to restrain by reason the desire that rushes toward base enjoyments and pleasures: and the enduring: and the being patient in the face of natural want and grief.

The things of Continence.
The works of continence are three: the

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Being able to restrain by reason the desire that rushes toward base enjoyments and pleasures. to be able to restrain by reason the desire rushing toward base enticements and pleasures.

Enduring. To tolerate.

Being patient in natural want and grief. To be endowed with the faculty of sustaining the indigence of natural things and grief.
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Of Justice.

I. The works.

A decorative triangular initial Delta begins the text.Justice is the being distributive according to merit: and the preserving of patria ethe ancestral customs and laws: and the preserving of written laws: and the being truthful in serious matters: and the keeping of agreements. It is first