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[748:5] Il dolce far niente (The sweet do nothing).—A well known Italian proverb.

[748:6] See Carlyle, page [579].

(Translated by M. H. Morgan, Ph. D., of Harvard University.)

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Meditations. ii. 2.

The ways of the gods are full of providence.

Meditations. ii. 3.