[1144] 1 Tim. v. 22.
[1145] Cp. De Cons. i. 6: "If you desire wholly to belong to all ... I praise your humility, but only if it is complete. But how can it be complete if you exclude yourself? And you are a man. Then, that your humanity also may be complete, let the bosom which receives all gather you also within itself ... wherefore, where all possess you let you yourself also be one of those who possess."
[1146] Lucan, Phars. ii. 383.
[1147] Cp. De Cons. iv. 12, "In ease not taking ease;" Life, § 43, "Quiet often, but by no means at any time taking ease."
[1148] Ps. cxix. 23.
[1149] Eccles. ii. 14 (inexact quotation).
[1150] Cp. Luke iv. 22.
[1151] Tantillus. The text seems to be corrupt. Read tam laetus?
[1152] Cp. Life, § 43: "Yea, what was there that was not edifying," etc.
[1153] Ps. xx. 3 (vg.).