This advice is even more applicable to the painter, but true perhaps in its application to all artists. Raphael and Mozart were, in this sense, great borrowers.
25.
“What is the difference between being good and being bad? the good do not yield to temptation and the bad do.”
This is often the distinction between the good and the bad in regard to act and deed; but it does not constitute the difference between being good and being bad.
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The Italians say (in one of their characteristic proverbs) Sospetto licenzia Fede. Lord Bacon interprets the saying “as if suspicion did give a passport to faith,” which is somewhat obscure and ambiguous. It means, that suspicion discharges us from the duty of good faith; and in this, its original sense, it is, like many of the old Italian proverbs, worldly wise and profoundly immoral.
