Footnotes
[708:1] Commonly called Publius, but spelled Publilius by Pliny (Natural History, 35, sect. 199).
[708:2] We always like those who admire us.—Rochefoucauld: Maxim 294.
[708:3] See Edwards, page [21].
[708:4] It is impossible to love and be wise.—Bacon: Of Love (quoted).
[708:5] See Shakespeare, page [154].
[708:6] A good name is better than riches.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xxxiii.
[708:7] The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.—Pliny: Natural History, book xviii. sect. 31.
[708:8] See Maxim 995.
[709:1] See Plautus, page [701].
[709:2] See Heywood, page [10].
[709:3] See Bacon, page [167].
[709:4] See Bacon, page [165].
Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."—Plutarch: Life of Caius Marius.
[709:5] Habit is second nature.—Montaigne: Essays, book iii. chap. x.
[709:6] He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs.
[710:1] See Heywood, page [14].
The sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast.
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 3.
[710:3] See Cowper, page [419].
[710:4] Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur,—the motto adopted for the "Edinburgh Review."
[710:5] Practice makes perfect.—Proverb.
[711:1] See Shakespeare, page [48].
[711:2] See Heywood, page [14].
[711:3] Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.—Euripides: Hercules Furens, line 281.
[711:4] It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. iv. 1.
[711:5] See Milton, page [232].
[711:6] See Chaucer, page [3].
[711:7] When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.—Plutarch: Of the Training of Children.
[711:8] No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.—Johnson: The Rambler, p. 150.
[711:9] Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.—Du Bartas: Divine Weekes and Workes, part ii. Second Weeke.
Not presuming to put my sickle in another man's corn.—Nicholas Yonge: Musica Transalpini. Epistle Dedicatory. 1588.
[712:1] See Shakespeare, page [136].
[712:2] Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.—Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, ii. 5.
[712:3] See Shakespeare, page [45].
[712:4] You may as well expect pears from an elm.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xl.
[712:5] See Washington, page [425].
[712:6] The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.—Plutarch: Of the Tranquillity of the Mind.
[712:7] In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.—Epictetus: That everything is to be undertaken with circumspection, chap. xv.
[713:1] Syrus was not a contemporary of Franklin.
[713:2] No just man ever became rich all at once.—Menander: Fragment.
[713:3] See Butler, page [213].
[713:4] See Shakespeare, page [64].
[713:5] See Bacon, page [166].
[713:6] See Dryden, page [269].
[714:1] See Shakespeare, page [72].
[714:2] See Maxim 144.
[714:3] See Shakespeare, page [102].
[714:4] Simonides said "that he never repented that he held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."—Plutarch: Rules for the Preservation of Health.
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Not lost, but gone before.[714:6]
Epistolæ. 63, 16.
Whom they have injured they also hate.[714:7]
De Ira. ii. 33.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.[714:8]
De Providentia. 5, 9.
There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.[714:9]
De Tranquillitate Animi. 17.
Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.[714:10]
Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.[715:1]
Hercules Furens. 255.
A good man possesses a kingdom.[715:2]
Thyestes. 380.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.[715:3]
On a Happy Life. 2. (L' Estrange's Abstract, Chap. i.)