254 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [BOOK VI 



Friendship gives the relish to It is a weak spirit that divides 



happiness. fortune with another. 



The worst solitude is to want 

 friendship. 



It is just that the hollow-hearted 

 should not find friendship. 



For. HEALTH. Against. 



The care of health subjects the Recovery from sickness is reju- 



mind to the body. venescency. 



A healthy body is the taberna- Pretence of sickness is a good 



cle, but a sickly one the prison of excuse for the healthy, 

 the soul. Health too strongly cements the- 



.. A sound constitution forwards soul and body, 

 business, but a sickly one makes The couch has governed empires, 



many holidays. and the litter, armies. 



For. HONOURS. Against. 



Honours are the suffrages, not To seek honour is to lose liberty. 



of tyrants, but Divine Providence. Honours give command where it 



Honours make both virtue and is best not to will ; and next, not 

 vice conspicuous. to be able. 



Honour is the touchstone of The steps of honour are hard to 

 virtue. climb, slippery a-top, and danger- 



The motion of virtue is rapid to ous to go down. 

 its place, but calm in it ; but the Men in great place borrow others 



place of virtue is honour. opinions, to think themselvei 



happy. 



For. JESTS. Against. 



A jest is the orator s altar. Hunters after deformities and 



Humour in conversation pre- comparisons are despicable crea- 

 serves freedom. tures. 



It is highly politic to puss To divert important business 



smoothly from jest to earnest, .and with a jest is a base trick. 

 vice versd. Judge of a jest when the laugh 



Witty conceits are vehicles to is over. 



truths that could not be otherwise Wit commonly plays on the sur- 



agreeably conveyed. face of things, for surface is the 



seat ot a jest. 



For. INGRATITUDE. Against. 



Ingratitude is but perceiving the The sin of ingratitude is not 



cause of a benefit. made penal here, but left to the 



The desire of being grateful furies. 



neither does justice to others nor The obligations for benefits ex- 



leaves one s self at liberty, ceed the obligation of duties; 



A benefit of an uncertain value whence ingratitude is also unjust, 

 merits the less thanks. No public fortune can exclude 



private favour. 



As happened in the persons of Charles V. and the Marshal J) 

 Buce. 



