CHAP. 



in.] 



EXAMPLES OP ANTITHETA. 



255 



For. 



INNOVATION. 



Against. 



Every remedy is an innovation. 



He who will not apply new re- 

 medies must expect new diseasea. 



Time is the greatest innovator : 

 and why may we not imitate time ? 



Ancient precedents are unsuit- 

 able, and late ones corrupt and 

 degenerate. 



Let the ignorant square their 

 actions by example. 



As they who first derive honour 

 to their family are commonly more 

 worthy than those who succeed 

 them, so innovations generally ex- 

 cel imitations. 



An obstinate adherence to cus- 

 toms is as turbulent a thing as in- 

 novation. 



Since things of their own course 

 change for the worse, if they are 

 not by prudence altered for the 

 better, what end can there be of 

 the ill ? 



The slaves of custom are the 

 sport of time. 



For. JUSTICE. 



Power and policy are but the 

 appendages of justice ; tor if jus- 

 tice could be otherwise executed, 

 there were no need of them. 



It is owing to justice that man 

 to man is a god, not a wolf. 



Though justice cannot extirpate 

 vice, it keeps it under. 



New births are defonned things. 



No author is accepted till time 

 has authorized him. 



All novelty is injury, for it de- 

 faces the present state of things. 



Things authorized by custom, if 

 not excellent, are yet comfortable 

 and sort well together. 



What innovator follows the ex- 

 ample of time, which brings about 

 new things so quietly as to be 

 almost imperceptible ? 



Things that happen unexpected 

 are less agreeable to those they 

 benefit and more afflicting to those 

 they injure. 



Against 



If justice consist in doing to 

 another what we would have done 

 to ourselves, then mercy is 

 justice. 



If every one must receive his 

 due, then surely mortals must re- 

 ceive pardon. 



The common justice of a nation, 

 like a philosopher at court, ren- 

 ders rulers awfuL 



KNOWLEDGE AND 



For. 

 That pleasure only is according 

 nature, which never cloys. 

 The sweetest prospect is that 

 low, into the errors of others. 

 It is best to have the orbits of 



the mind concentric with those of 



the universe. 



All depraved aflFections are false 



valuations, but goodness and truth 



are over the same. 



CONTEMPLATION. 



Against. 



A contemplative life is bat a 

 specious laziness. 



To think well is little better 

 than to dream well. 



Divine Providence regards the 

 world, but man regards only hia 

 country. 



A political man sows even hia 

 thoughts. 



