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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



Why should not one man rest in 

 one individual ? 



For 



MAGNANIMITY 



When the mind proposes honorable 

 ends, not only the virtues but the dei 

 ties are ready to assist. 



Yirtues proceeding from habit or 

 precept are vulgar, but those that pro 

 ceed from the end, heroical. 



Against 

 Magnanimity is a poetical virtue. 



For 



Custom goes in arithmetical, but na 

 ture in geometrical progression. 



As laws are to custom in states, 

 so is nature to custom in particular 

 persons. 



Custom against nature is a kind of 

 tyranny, but easily suppressed. 



NATURE Against 



Men think according to nature, 

 speak according to precept, but act 

 according to custom. 



Nature is a kind of schoolmaster; 

 custom, a magistrate. 



For 



NOBILITY 



Against 



&quot;Where virtue is deeply implanted 

 from the stock, there can be no 

 vice. 



Nobility is a laurel conferred by 

 time. 



If we reverence antiquity in dead 

 monuments, we should do it much 

 more in living ones. 



If we despise nobility in families, 

 what difference is there between men 

 and brutes ? 



Nobility shelters virtue from envy 

 and recommends it to favor. 



Nobility seldom springs from virtue, 

 and virtue seldomer from nobility. 



Nobles oftener plead their ancestors 

 for pardon than promotion. 



New rising men are so industrious 

 as to make nobles seem like statues. 



Nobles, like bad racers, look back 

 too often in the course. 



For 



POPULARITY 



Against 



Uniformity commonly pleases wise 

 men, yet it is a point of wisdom to 

 Humor the changeable nature of fools. 



To honor the people is the way to 

 be honored. 



Men in place are usually awed not 

 by one man but the multitude. 



He who suits with fools may him 

 self be suspected. 



He who pleases the rabble is com 

 monly turbulent. 



No moderate counsels take with the 

 vulgar. 



To fawn on the people is the basest 

 flattery. 



