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He who easily talks what he 

 knows, will also talk what he 

 knows not. 



Mysteries are due to secrets. 



Change of customs keeps men 

 secret. 



Secrecy is the virtue of a con- 

 fessor. 



A close man is like a man un- 

 known. 



For 



TEMPERANCE 



Against 



are 



To abstain and sustain 

 nearly the same virtue. 



Uniformity, concords, and the 

 measure of motions, are things 

 celestial and the characters of 

 eternity. 



Temperance, like wholesome 

 cold, collects and strengthens the 

 force of the mind. 



When the senses are too exquis- 

 ite and wandering, they want nar- 

 cotics, so likewise do wandering 

 affections. 



I like not bare negative virtues; 

 they argue innocence, not merit. 



The mind languishes that is not 

 sometimes spirited up by excess. 



I like the virtues which produce 

 the vivacity of action, not the dul- 

 ncss of passion. 



The sayings, "Not to use, that 

 you may not desire;" "Not to 

 desire, that you may not fear," 

 etc., proceed from pusillanimous 

 and distrustful natures. 



For 



VAIN-GLORY 



He who seeks his own praise at 

 the same time seeks the advantage 

 of others. 



He who is so strait-laced as to 

 regard nothing that belongs to 

 others, will perhaps account public 

 affairs impertinent. 



Such dispositions as have a mix- 

 ture of levity, more easily under- 

 take a public charge. 



Against 



The vain-glorious are always 

 factious, false, fickle, and upon the 

 extreme. 



Thraso is Gnatho's prey. 



It is shameful in a lover to court 

 the maid instead of the mistress, 

 but praise is only virtue's hand- 

 maid. 



For UNCHASTITY Against 



Incontinence is one of Circe's 

 worst transformations. 



The unchaste liver has no rev- 

 erence for himself, which is slack- 

 ening 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. 



It is jealousy that makes chas- 

 tity a virtue. 



He must be a melancholy mor- 

 tal who thinks Venus a grave 

 lady. 



Why is a part of regimen, pre- 

 tended cleanness, and the daugh- 

 ter of pride, placed among the vir- 

 tues? 



In amours, as in wild-fowl, 

 there is property; but the right is 

 transferred with possession. 



