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A treatyce of Moral philosophy containing the sayinges of the wise

Wherein you maye see the worthye and pithye sayinges of ye Philosophers, Emperors, kinges, and oratours, of their liues, their aunswers, of what lignage they came of, and of what cou[n]trey they were, whose worthy and notable preseptes, counsailes parables and semblables doth hereafter folow: First gathered and englished by Willia[m] Baldwin, after that, twise augmented by Thomas Paulfreyman ... & now once againe enlarged by the first aucthor
  
  

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[by nature all men be equall in dignitie]

by nature all men be equall in dignitie,
by fortune one more then an other aduaunced:
this who considers in his supremitie,
ought loke to himselfe, and well be aduised,
by fortunes good fortune, who commeth in fauour,
by fortunes misfortune, may catche a displeasure.