For most of her life Kate was an excellent athlete.

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The most excellent princes of the past were those like Moses, he tells us, who brought tables of law and prepared people for self-government.

历史上最杰出的君王是摩西那样的,他告诉我们，摩西带来了刻有法律的石板,而后让人们据此来自治。

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Then the duke judged that such excessive authority was not necessary, because he feared it might become hateful and he set up a sort of a civil court in the middle of the province with the most excellent president where each city had its advocate.

然后君王判断,这样过度的威信是不需要的，因为他害怕那可能会变成仇恨,他在该省区中心,设立了一个类民事法庭,并派出最优秀的大臣,让每一座城都有自己的律师。

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A prudent man," he writes, "should always enter upon the paths beaten by great men and imitate those who have been most excellent, so that if his own virtue does not reach that far, " it at least is in the odor of it."

他写到：，“一位审慎的君子，应总是选择由伟人所开创的道路,并模仿那些,具有最优美德的人，如此一来若其自身的美德不及先人，至少仍能保有其风“

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