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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



not upon present occasion, is no great 

 matter. 



ripened by deliberation have not 

 their prudence ripened by age. 



What is suddenly invented sud 

 denly vanishes. 



Pbr REVENGE Against 



Private revenge is a kind of wild He who does the wrong is the ag- 

 justice. 



He who returns injury for injury 

 violates the law, not the person. 



The fear of private revenge is use 

 ful, for laws are often asleep. 



For 



They despise riches who despair of 

 them. 



Envy at riches has made virtue a 

 goddess. 



While philosophers dispute whether 

 all things should be referred to virtue 

 or pleasure, let us be collecting the 

 instruments of both. 



Riches turn virtue into a common 

 good. 



The command of other advantages 

 are particular, but that of riches uni 

 versal. 



For SUPERSTITION 



gressor, but he who returns it the 

 protractor. 



The more prone men are to revenge, 

 the more it should be weeded out. 



A revengeful man may be slow in 

 time, though not in will. 

 RICHES Against 



Great riches are attended either with 

 care, trouble, or fame, but no use. 



What an imaginary value is set upon 

 stones and other curiosities, that riches 

 may seem to be of some service. 



Many who imagine all things may 

 be bought by their riches, forget they 

 have sold themselves. 



Riches are the baggage of virtue, 

 necessary though cumbersome. 



Riches are a good servant but a bad 

 master. 



Against 



They who err out of zeal, though 

 they are not to be approved, should 

 yet be pitied. 



Mediocrity belongs to morality, ex 

 tremes to divinity. 



A superstitious man is a religious 

 formalist. 



I should sooner believe all the fa 

 bles and absurdities of any religion 

 than that the universal frame is with 

 out a deity. 



As an ape appears the more de 

 formed for his resemblance to man, 

 so the similitude of superstition to 

 religion makes it the more odious. 



What affectation is in civil matters 

 such is superstition in divine.* 8 



It were better to have no belief of 

 a God than such a one as dishonors 

 him. 



It was not the school of Epicurus, 

 but the Stoics, that disturbed the 

 states of old. 



The real atheists are hypocrites, 

 who deal continually in holy things 

 without feeling. 



88 Superstition is anything but affectation. They are hypocrites who dis 

 semble: those who believe too much are generally overearnest. Ed. 



