Footnotes
[757:1] See Pope, page [317]. Also Plutarch, page [736].
[757:2] Μηδὲν ἄγαν, nequid nimis.
[758:1] De mortuis nil nisi bonum (Of the dead be nothing said but what is good.)—Of unknown authorship.
[758:2] See Hesiod, page [693].
[758:3] Quoted by Epictetus (Fragment lxii.), "Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is the proof of a gentle, the other of a savage nature."
[758:4] See Shakespeare, page [115].
[758:5] In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin.—Proverbs x. 19.
[758:6] See Publius Syrus, page [710].
[758:7] "How thick do you judge the planks of our ship to be?" "Some two good inches and upward," returned the pilot. "It seems, then, we are within two fingers' breadth of damnation."—Rabelais: book iv. chap. xxiii.
[759:1] The story of Rip Van Winkle.
[759:2] See Milton, page [226].
[760:1] See Plutarch, page [738].
[760:2] See Garrison, page [605].
[760:3] See Walton, page [207].
In that [virtue] does happiness consist.—Zeno (page [764]).
[760:4] See Chesterfield, page [353].
[761:1] All things are in common among friends.—Diogenes (page [763]).
[761:2] See Prior, page [288].
[761:3] See Publius Syrus, page [709].
[762:1] Quoted with great warmth by Dr. Johnson (Boswell).—Langton: Collectanea.
[762:3] See Franklin, page [361].
[763:1] See Plutarch, page [733].
[763:2] See Terence, page [705]. Also, page [761].
[763:3] The rich when he is hungry, the poor when he has anything to eat.—Rabelais: book iv. chap. lxiv.
[763:4] The same is told of Æsop.
[764:1] See Mathew Henry, page [283].
[764:2] See Garrison, page [605].
[764:3] See Bacon, page [169].
[765:2] See Spenser, page [30].
[765:3] Αὐτὸς ἔφα (The master said so).
[766:1] See Shakespeare, page [146].
[766:2] See Campbell, page [512].
ATHENÆUS. Circa 200 a. d.
(Translation by C. D. Yonge, B. A.)
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."[766:3]
The Deipnosophists. vi. 23.
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.[767:1]
The Deipnosophists. vii. 11.
Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.[767:2]
The Deipnosophists. viii. 19.
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.
The Deipnosophists. xiii. 47.
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.[767:3]
The Deipnosophists. xiv. 46.