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but acting is generally conversing with 

 fools. 



Sciences of little significance in 

 themselves may sharpen the wit and 

 marshal the thoughts. 



To be wise by precept and wise by 

 experience are contrary habits, the one 

 sorts not with the other. 



A vain use is made of art, lest it 

 should otherwise be unemployed. 



It is the way of scholars to show 

 all they know and oppose further 

 information. 



For, 



It is absurd to love the accidents 

 of life above life itself. 



A long course is better than a short 

 one, even for virtue. 



Without a compass of life, we can 

 neither learn, nor repent, nor perfect. 



LIFE Against 



The philosophers, by their great 

 preparation for death, have only ren 

 dered death more terrible. 



Men fear death through ignorance, 

 as children fear the dark. 



There is no passion so weak but, 

 if a little urged, will conquer the fear 

 of death. 



A man would wish to die, even 

 through weariness of doing the same 

 things over and over again. 



For 



LOQUACITY 



Against 



Silence argues a man to suspect 

 either himself or others. 



All restraints are irksome, but espe 

 cially that of the tongue. 



Silence is the virtue of fools. 



Silence, like the night, is fit for 

 treacheries. 



Thoughts, like waters, are best in 

 a running stream. 



Silence is a kind of solitude. 



He who is silent exposes himself to 

 censure. 



For LOVE 



Every man seeks, but the lover only 

 finds, himself. 



The mind is best regulated by the 

 predominance of some powerful affec 

 tion. 



He who is wise will pursue some 

 one desire ; for he that affects not one 

 thing above another, finds all flat and 

 distasteful. 



To speak little gives grace and au 

 thority to what is delivered. 



Silence is like sleep, it refreshes 

 wisdom. 



Silence is the fermentation of the 

 thoughts. 



Silence is the style of wisdom and 

 the candidate for truth. 



Against 



The stage is more beholden to lore 

 than civil life. 



I like not such men as are wholly 

 taken up with one thing. 



Love is but a narrow contemplation, 



