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THe rewarding of services is so necessary for the good of a State, that when it is once laid by, the practice of vertue is neglected, especially if it be not distingui∣shed by marks of honour. There are but a few of the same mind with the Phyloso∣pher, who said he never expected other fruit from his good deeds, then the con∣tentment
to have done them, and that he thought himself very happy to receive that testimony from his Conscience, which she gave to him. It is true, a truly noble man, doth not so much regard the Recompence, as the Action of Vertue which render him deserving; but it cannot be denied, that those marks of honour do make lively, and excite resolutions to noble actions. The wisest Phylosophers have said, that the two supporters, upon which all the motions of a State depend, are reward and punishment, without which, there were no doubt but that great disorders would soon follow, and vertue become totally neglected.