Laudem virtutis necessitati damus (We give to necessity the praise of virtue).—Quintilian: Inst. Orat. i. 8. 14.
[3:2] Haste makes waste.—Heywood: Proverbs, part i. chap. ii.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 357.
[3:3] Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.—Plutarch: Life of Pericles.
[3:4] E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.—Gray: Elegy, Stanza 23.
[3:5] Frieth in her own grease.—Heywood: Proverbs, part i. chap. xi.
[3:6] To see and to be seen.—Ben Jonson: Epithalamion, st. iii. line 4. Goldsmith: Citizen of the World, letter 71.
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ (They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen).—Ovid: The Art of Love, i. 99.
[4:1] Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one hole only.—Plautus: Truculentus, act iv. sc. 4.
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole