For a desperate disease a desperate cure.[775:2]
Book ii. Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.
And not to serve for a table-talk.[775:3]
Book ii. Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.
To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.[775:4]
Book ii. Chap. viii. Of the Affection of Fathers.
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
Book ii. Chap. x. Of Books.
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Book ii. Chap. x. Of Books.