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NOTES 89 



Note 2 (p. 49) 



Heracleitus says, IIoTa/^a) yap ovk ecrrt 8is i/xfirjvaL 

 T(3 avTco ; 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 prjesentibus miser est." (Seneca, Ed. 

 V. 7.) 



Among the many wise and w^eighty 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 de leurs 

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

 from experience, but not the least important, that a 



