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BACON 



To view danger is looking out 

 to avoid it. 



Other virtues subdue vice, but 

 fortitude even conquers fortune. 



A prodigal of his own life 

 threatens the lives of others. 



Fortitude is a virtue of the iron 

 age. 



For 



FORTUNE 



Against 



Public virtues procure praise; 

 but private ones, fortune. 



Fortune, like the Milky Way, is 

 a cluster of small, twinkling, 

 nameless virtues. 



Fortune is to be honored and 

 respected, though it were but for 

 her daughters, Confidence and 

 Authority. 



For 



The folly of one man is the for- 

 tune of another. 



This may be commended in for- 

 tune, that if she makes no elec- 

 tion, she gives no protection. 



The great, to decline envy, wor- 

 ship fortune. 



FRIENDSHIP 



Friendship does the same as 

 fortitude, but more agreeably. 



Friendship gives the relish to 

 happiness. 



The worst solitude is to want 

 friendship. 



It is just that the hollow-heart- 

 ed should not find friendship. 



Against 



To contract friendship is to pro- 

 cure incumbrance. 



It is a weak spirit that divides 

 fortune with another. 



For HEALTH Against 



Recovery from sickness is re- 

 juvenescency. 



Pretence of sickness is a good 

 excuse for the healthy. 



Health too strongly cements 

 the soul and body. 



The couch has governed em- 

 pires, and the litter, armies. 



The care of health subjects the 

 mind to the body. 



A healthy body is the taberna- 

 cle, but a sickly one the prison of 

 the soul. 



A sound constitution forwards 

 business, but a sickly one makes 

 many holidays. 



For 



Honors are the suffrages, not 

 of tyrants, but Divine Providence. 



Honors make both virtue and 

 vice conspicuous. 



Honor is the touchstone of vir- 

 tue. 



The motion of virtue is rapid to 

 its place, but calm in it; but the 

 place of virtue is honor. 



HONORS Against 



To seek honor is to lose liberty. 

 Honors give command where it 



is best not to will; and next, not 

 to be able. 



The steps of honor are hard to 

 climb, slippery a-top, and danger- 

 ous to go down. 



Men in great place borrow oth- 

 ers' opinions, to think themselves 

 happy. 



