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gether in the body, so are the four latter seldom found 

 together in the mind. 31 For it is evident that many are full 

 of wit and courage, without being either calm or elegant in 

 their deportment, or beautiful in their person; others again 

 possess an elegant and fine deportment, and yet eschew 

 honesty and justice; others again have pure minds, but 

 without any qualifications for the business of life; 32 others 

 who perchance unite all these three qualities, possess a 

 sullen humor of stoical sadness and stupidity they practice 

 a virtue, but refuse to enjoy its pleasures; and if perchance 

 of these qualities two or three are sometimes found together, 

 it seldom if ever happens that all four can be met with in 

 the same person. And thus we have finished that principal 

 branch of human philosophy, which considers man out of 

 society, and as consisting of a body and a soul. 



EIGHTH BOOK 

 CHAPTER I 



Civil Knowledge divided into the Art of Conversation, the Art of Negotiation, 

 and the Art of State Policy 



THERE goes an old tradition, excellent King, that many 

 Grecian philosophers had a solemn meeting before 

 the ambassador of a foreign prince, where each en 

 deavored to show his parts, that the ambassador might have 

 somewhat to relate of the Grecian wisdom ; but one among 

 the number kept silence, so that the ambassador, turning to 



31 This doctrine of the georgics of the mind is expressly endeavored to be 

 supplied by Professor Wesenfeld, in the books he entitles &quot;Arnoldi &quot;Wesenfeld 

 Georgica Animi et Vitae, sen Pathologia practica, moralis nempe et civilis, ex 

 physicis ubique fontibus repetita.&quot; Francof. 1695, and 1712. Some account 

 of this work is given in the &quot;Acta Eruditorum. &quot; Mens. August, 1696. See 

 also &quot;Joan. Franc. Brudens de Cultura Ingeniorum,&quot; ed. Halae, 1699. Shaw. 



32 Mirabeau expressed the same sentiment with his usual felicity. Energy 

 of character is scarcely ever found except in union with violent temperaments. 

 The wicked only are active. Ed. 



