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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



For 



Flattery proceeds from custom rather 

 than ill design. 



To convey instruction with praise is 

 a f orm due to the great. 



FLATTERY Against 



Flattery is the style of a slave. 



Flattery is the varnish of vice. 



Flattery is fowling with a bird-call. 



The deformity of flattery is comedy, 

 but the injury, tragedy. 



To convey good counsel is a hard 

 task. 



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FORTITUDE 



Against 



Nothing is terrible but fear itself. 



Pleasure and virtue lose their nature 

 where fear disquiets. 



To view danger is looking out to 

 avoid it. 



Other virtues subdue vice, but forti 

 tude even conquers fortune. 



A strange virtue that, to desire to 

 destroy, to secure destruction. 



A goodly virtue truly, which even 

 drunkenness can cause. 



A prodigal of his own life threatens 

 the lives of others. 



Fortitude is a virtue of the iron age. 



For FORTUNE 



Public virtues procure praise; but 

 private ones, fortune. 



Fortune, like the milky way, is a 

 cluster of small, twinkling, nameless 

 virtues. 



Fortune is to be honored and re 

 spected, though it were but for her 

 daughters, Confidence and Authority. 



Against 



The folly of one man is the fortune 

 of another. 



This may be commended in fortune, 

 that if she makes no election, she 

 gives no protection. 



The great, to decline envy, worship 

 fortune. 



For 



FRIENDSHIP 



Against 



Friendship does the same as forti 

 tude, but more agreeably. 



Friendship gives the relish to hap 

 piness. 



The worst solitude is to want 

 friendship. 



It is just that the hollow-hearted 

 should not find friendship. 



To contract friendship is to procure 

 encumbrance. 



It is a weak spirit that divides for 

 tune with another. 



For 



The care of health subjects 

 mind to the body. 



A healthy body is the tabernacle, 

 but a sickly one the prison of the 

 soul. 



A sound constitution forwards busi- 



HEALTH 



the 



Against 



Recovery from sickness is rejuve- 

 nescency. 



Pretence of sickness is a good ex 

 cuse for the healthy. 



Health too strongly cements the 

 soul and body. 



