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ought to be such as the same Consalvo said the honour 
of a soldier should be, e “/d crassiore, and not so fine as 
that every thing should catch in it and endanger it. 
XXI. 1. To resume private or particular good, it 
falleth into the division of good active and passive: for 
this difference of good (not unlike to that which amongst 
the Romans was expressed in the familiar or household 
terms of ~romus and condus) is formed also in all things, 
and is best disclosed in the two several appetites in crea- 
tures; the one to preserve or continue themselves, and 
the other to dilate or multiply themselves; whereof the 
latter seemeth to be the worthier: for in nature the 
heavens, which are the more worthy, are the agent; and 
the earth, which is the less worthy, is the patient. In the 
pleasures of living creatures, that of generation is greater 
than that of food. In divine doctrine, deatus est dare 
quam accipere. And in life, there is no man’s spirit so 
soft, but esteemeth the effecting of somewhat that he hath 
fixed in his desire, more than sensuality; which priority 
of the active good, is much upheld by the consideration 
of our estate to be mortal and exposed to fortune. For 
if we mought have a perpetuity and certainty in our plea- 
sures, the state of them would advance their price. But 
when we see it is but magni estimamus mort tardius, and 
ne glorieris de crastino, nescis partum diet, it maketh us to’.¥ 
desire to have somewhat secured and exempted from 
time, which are only our deeds and works: as it is said, 
Opera eorum sequuntur eos, ‘The preeminence likewise of 
this active good is upheld by the affection which is natural 
in man towards variety and proceeding; which in the 
pleasures of the sense, which is the principal part of 
passive good, can have no great latitude. Cogz/a guam- 
diu eadem feceris; cibus, somnus, ludus; per hune circulum 
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