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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



He must be a melancholy mortal 

 who thinks Venus a grave lady. 



Why is a part of regimen, pretended 

 cleanness, and the daughter of pride, 

 placed among the virtues ? 



In amours, as in wild fowl, there is 

 property ; but the right is transferred 

 with possession. 



The unchaste liver has no reverence 

 for himself, which is slackening the 

 bridle of vice. 



They who, with Paris, make beauty 

 their wish, lose, as he did, wisdom 

 and power. 



Alexander fell upon no popular 

 truth when he said that sleep and 

 lust were the earnest of death. 



For 



WATCHFULNESS 



Against 



More dangers deceive by fraud than 

 force. 



It is easier to prevent a danger than 

 to watch its approach. 



Danger is no longer light if it once 

 seem light. 



For WIFE AND 



Charity to the commonwealth be 

 gins with private families. 



Wife and children are a kind of 

 discipline, but unmarried men are 

 morose and cruel. 



A single life and a childless state 

 fit men for nothing but flight. 



He sacrifices to death who begets 

 no children. 



The happy in other respects are 

 commonly unfortunate in their chil 

 dren, lest the human state should too 

 nearly approach the divine. 



He bids danger advance, who 

 buckles against it. 



Even the remedies of dangers are 

 dangerous. 



It is better to use a few approved 

 remedies than to venture upon many 

 unexperienced particulars. 



CHILDREN 



He who hath wife and children 

 hath given hostages to fortune. 



Generation and issue are human 

 acts, but creation and its works are 

 divine. 



Issue is the eternity of brutes ; but 

 fame, merit, and institutions the eter 

 nity of men. 



Private regards generally prevail 

 over public. 



Some affect the fortune of Priam, 

 in surviving his family. 



For 



YOUTH 



The first thoughts and counsels of 

 youth have somewhat divine. 



Old men are wise for themselves, 

 but less for others and the public 

 good. 



If it were visible, old age deforms 

 the mind more than the body. 



Old men fear all things but the 

 gods. 



Youth is the field of repentance. 



Youth naturally despises the au 

 thority of age, that every one may 

 grow wise at his peril. 



The counsels whereat time did not 

 assist are not ratified by him. 



Old men commute Yenus for the 

 graces. 39 



39 Understand propriety and decorum. 



