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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 



[book VI. 



Friendship gives the relish to 

 happiness. 



The worst solitude is to want 

 friendship. 



It is just that the hollow-hearted 

 should not find friendship. 



For. - HEALTH, 



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. HONOURS, 



Honours are the suffrages, not 

 of tyrants, but Divine Providence. 



Honours icake both virtue and 

 vice conspicuous. 



Honour is . the touchstone of 

 virtue. 



The motion of virtue is rapid to 

 its place, but calm in it ; but the 

 place of virtue is honour. 



It is a weak spirit that divides 

 fortune with another. 



For. 



A jest is the orator's altar. 



Humour in conversation pre- 

 serves freedom. 



It is highly politic to pass 

 smoothly from jest to earnest, and 

 vice versa. 



Witty conceits are vehicles to 

 truths that could not be otherwise 

 agreeably conveyed. 



Against. 



Recovery from sickness is reju- 

 venescency. 



Pretence of sickness is a good 

 excuse for the healthy. 



Health too strongly cements the 

 soul and body. 



The couch has governed empires, 

 and the litter, armies." 



Against. 



To seek honour is to lose liberty. 



Honours give command where it 

 is best not to will ; and next, not 

 to be able. 



The steps of honour are hard to 

 climb, slippery a-top, and danger- 

 ous to go down. 



Men in great place borrowothers* 

 opinions, to think themselves 

 happy. 



JESTS. Against. 



Hunters after deformities and 

 comparisons are despicable crea- 

 tures. 



To divert important business 

 with a jest is a base trick. 



Judge of a jest when the laugh 

 is over. 



Wit commonly plays on the sur- 

 face of things, for surface is the 



seat ot a jest. 

 For. INGRATITUDE. Against. 



Ingratitude is but perceiving the The sin of ingratitude is not 



cause of a benefit. 



The desire of being grateful 

 neither does justice to others nor 

 leaves one's self at liberty. • 



A benefit of an uncertain value 

 merits the les.s thanks. 



made penal here, but left to the 

 furies. 



The obligations for benefits ex- 

 ceed the obligation of duties; 

 whence ingi-atitude is also imjust. 



No public fortune can exclude 

 private favour. 



* As happened in the persons of Charles Y, ?^nd the Mar^hs^ D» 

 6axe. 



