258 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [BOOK VL 



For. PRAISE. Against. 



Praise is the reflected ray of Fame makes a quick messenger 

 virtue. but a rash judge. 



Praise is honour obtained by What has a good man to 



free voices. do with the breath of the 



Many states confer honours, but vulgar ? 



praise always proceeds from liberty. Fame, like a river, buoys up 



The voice of the people hath things light and swollen,butdrow .ia 

 something of divine, else how those that are weighty, 

 should so many become of one Low virtues gain the praise of 



mind ? the vulgar, ordinary ones astonish 



No wonder if the commonalty them, but of the highest they ha^e 

 cpeak truer than the nobility, be- no feeling. 



cause they speak with less danger. Praise is got by bravery mo 8 



than merit, and given rather -o 

 the vain and empty than to tl e 

 worthy and substantial. 



For. PREPARATION. Against. 



He who attempts great matters The first occasion is the best 

 with small means hopes for oppor- preparation, 

 tunity to keep him in heart. Fortune is not to be fettered in 



Slender provision buys wit, but the chains of preparation, 

 not fortune. The interchange of preparation 



and action are politic, but the se 

 paration of them ostentatious and 

 unsuccessful. 



Great preparation is a prodigj 1 

 both of time and business. 



For. PRIDE. Against. 



Pride is inconsistent even with Pride is the ivy of virtue, 



vice; and as poison expels poison, Other vices are only opposite ? 



so are many vices expelled by to virtues, but pride is even cor. - 

 pride. tagious. 



An easy nature is subject to Pride wants the best condition 



other men s vices, but a proud one of vice, concealment, 

 only to its own. A proud man, while he despise I 



Pride, if it rise from a contempt others, neglects himself. 

 of others to a contempt of itself, at 

 length becomes philosophy. 



For. READINESS. Against. 



That is unseasonable wisdom That knowledge is not deep 



which is not ready. fetched which lies ready at hand 



He who errs suddenly, suddenly Wisdom is like a garment 



reforms his error. lightest when readiest. 



To be wise upon deliberation, They whose counsels are no 



ond not upon present occasion, is ripened by deliberation have no 1 

 no fjreat matter. their prudence ripened by age. 



What is suddenly invented sud 

 denly vanishes. 



