ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



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For 



LIFE 



Against 



It is absurd to love the accidents 

 of life above life itself. 



A long course is better than a 

 short one, even for virtue. 



Without a compass of life, we 

 can neither learn, nor repent, nor 

 perfect. 



The philosophers, by their 

 great preparation for death, have 

 only rendered death more terrible. 



Men fear death through igno- 

 rance, as children fear the dark. 



There is no passion so weak but, 

 if a little urged, will conquer the 

 fear of death. 



A man would wish to die, even 

 through weariness of doing the 

 same things over and over again. 



For 



LOQUACITY 



Against 



Silence argues a man to suspect 

 either himself or others. 



All restraints are irksome, but 

 especially that of the tongue. 



Silence is the virtue of fools. 



Silence, like the night, is fit for 

 treacheries. 



Thoughts, like waters, are best 

 in a running stream. 



Silence is a kind of solitude. 



He who is silent exposes himsel! 

 to censure. 



To speak little gives grace and 

 authority to what is delivered. 



Silence is like sleep, it refreshes 

 wisdom. 



Silence is the fermentation of 

 the thoughts. 



Silence is the style of wisdom 

 and the candidate for truth. 



For 



LOVE 



Against 



Every man seeks, but the lover 

 only finds, himself. 



The mind is best regulated by 

 the predominancy of some power- 

 ful affection. 



He who is wise will pursue 

 some one desire; for he that af- 

 fects not one thing above another, 

 finds all flat and distasteful. 



Why should not one man rest in 

 one individual? 



The stage is more beholden to 

 love than civil life. 



I like not such men as are 

 wholly taken up with one thing. 



Love is but a narrow contem- 

 plation. 



For MAGNANIMITY Against 



Magnanimity is a poetical vir- 

 tue. 



When the mind proposes hon- 

 orable ends, not only the virtues 

 but the deities are ready to assist. 



Virtues proceeding from habit 

 or precept are vulgar, but those 

 that proceed from the end, hero- 

 ical. 



