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NOTES 89 



Note 2 (p. 49) 



Heracleitus says, IIoTa/Au5 yap OVK rri Sis if 

 TO) avruJ ; but, to be strictly accurate, the river 

 remains, though the water of which it is composed 

 changes just as a man retains his identity though 

 the whole substance of his body is constantly 

 shifting. 



This is put very well by Seneca (Ep. Ivii. i. 20, Ed. 

 Ruhkopf) : " Corpora nostra rapiuntur fluminum 

 more, quidquid vides currit cum tempore ; nihil ex 

 his quae videmus manet. Ego ipse dum loquor mutari 

 ista, mutatus sum. Hoc est quod ait Heraclitus ' In 

 idem flumen bis non descendimus.' Manet idem 

 fluminis nomen, aqua transmissa est. Hoc in amne 

 manifestius est quam in homine, sed nos quoque non 

 minus velox cursus prsetervehit." 



Note 3 (p. 55). 



"Multa bona nostra nobis nocent, timoris enim 

 tormentum memoria reducit, providentia anticipat. 

 Nemo tantum praesentibus miser est." (Seneca, Ed. 

 v. 7.) 



Among the many wise and weighty aphorisms of 

 the Roman Bacon, few sound the realities of life more 

 deeply than " Multa bona nostra nobis nocent." If 

 there is a soul of good in things evil, it is at least 

 equally true that there is a soul of evil in things 

 good : for things, like men, have " les defauts cle leurs 

 qualites." It is one of the last lessons one learns 

 from experience, but not the least important, that a 



