CHAP. III.] 



EXAMrLES OF ANTITHETA. 



2&5 



Arguments against testimonies 

 make the case appear strange, but 

 not true. 



For. FACILITY. Against. 



Give me the man who complies Facility is want of judgment, 



to another's humour without flat- The good offices of easy naturei 



tery. seem debts, and their denials, in- 



The flexible man comes nearest juries. 

 to the nature of gold. He thanks only himself who 



prevails upon an easy man. 



All difficulties oppress a yield- 

 ing nature, for he is engaged in 

 all. 



Easy natures seldom come oflf 

 with credit. 



For. 



FLATTERY. 



Against. 



Flattery proceeds from custom 

 rather than ill design. 



To conveyinstruction with praise 



Flattery is the style of a slave. 



Flattery is the varnish of vice. 



Flattery is fowling with a bird- 

 call. 



The deformity of flatteiy is 

 comedy ; but the injury, tnigedy. 



To convey good counsel is » 

 hard task. 



For. 



FORTITUDE. 



Against. 



Nothing is terrible but fear 

 itself. 



Pleasure and virtue lose their 

 nature where fear disquiets. 



To view danger is looking out 

 to avoid it. 



Other virtues subdue vice, but 

 fortitude even conquers fortune. 



A strange virtue that, to desire 

 to destroy, to secure destruction. 



A goodly virtue truly, which 

 even drunkenness can cause. 



A prodigal of his own life 

 threatens the lives of others. 



Fortitude is a virtue of the iron 

 age. 



For. 



FORTUNE. Against. 



The folly of one man is the for- 

 tune of another. 



This may be commended in for- 

 tune, that if she maJkes no election, 

 she gives no protection. 



The great, to decline envy, wor- 

 ship fortune. 



Public virtues procure praise ; 

 but private ones, fortune. 



Fortune, like the milky way, is 

 a cluster of small, twinkling, name- 

 less virtues. 



Fortune is to !« honoured and 

 respected, though it were but for 

 her daughters. Confidence and Au- 

 thority. 



For. FRIENDSHIP. Against. 



Fiiendship does the same as To contract friendship is to prO" 



fortitude, but more agreeably. cure incumbrance. 



