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And yet not willing to follow the doctrine of his maisterPlato,and also accounting ita shame to depart from the opinion by himselfe once receiued and set downe; for as much as he at the first had put the blessed life in action; he afterward with great ambiguitie of words, hath placed the chiefe felicitie of man, in the action of the mind, which is nothing else but contemplation: to the intent he might not seeme to haue put the chief good, both of men and commonweals, in things most contrary vnto themselues; motion (I say ) and rest, action and contemplation.