CARDAN'S COUNSEL TO HIS CHILDREN. 41 



Have no horse, or a good one. Never leave him loose 

 upon the road. 



* Do not spend upon animals more than a thousandth 

 part of your income." 



How much Jerome himself had spent on them we 

 ought not to inquire : many of the precepts here cited 

 have been manifestly warnings to his children against 

 doing that which he himself had done. Having ended 

 his compendium of precepts, he appends to them the 

 following 



" CONCLUSION. 



Observation of all these rules is not necessary to hap- 

 piness, but he will be happy who observes them. 



It is, however, much easier to know these things 

 than to do them." 



