Fama.—­A Fame that is wounded to the world would be better cured by another’s apology than its own:  for few can apply medicines well themselves.  Besides, the man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.  He is not easily emergent.

Negotia.—­In great affairs it is a work of difficulty to please all.  And ofttimes we lose the occasions of carrying a business well and thoroughly by our too much haste.  For passions are spiritual rebels, and raise sedition against the understanding.

Amor patriae.—­There is a necessity all men should love their country:  he that professeth the contrary may be delighted with his words, but his heart is there.

Ingenia.—­Natures that are hardened to evil you shall sooner break than make straight; they are like poles that are crooked and dry, there is no attempting them.

Applausus.—­We praise the things we hear with much more willingness than those we see, because we envy the present and reverence the past; thinking ourselves instructed by the one, and overlaid by the other.

Opinio.—­Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason.  We labour with it more than truth.  There is much more holds us than presseth us.  An ill fact is one thing, an ill fortune is another; yet both oftentimes sway us alike, by the error of our thinking.

Impostura.—­Many men believe not themselves what they would persuade others; and less do the things which they would impose on others; but least of all know what they themselves most confidently boast.  Only they set the sign of the cross over their outer doors, and sacrifice to their gut and their groin in their inner closets.

Jactura vitae.—­What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter-love in a dark corner.

Hypocrita.—­Puritanus Hypocrita est Haereticus, quem opinio propriae perspicaciae, qua sibi videtur, cum paucis in Ecclesia dogmatibus errores quosdam animadvertisse, de statu mentis deturbavit:  unde sacro furore percitus, phrenetice pugnat contra magistratus, sic ratus obedientiam praestare Deo. {14}

Mutua auxilia.—­Learning needs rest:  sovereignty gives it.  Sovereignty needs counsel:  learning affords it.  There is such a consociation of offices between the prince and whom his favour breeds, that they may help to sustain his power as he their knowledge.  It is the greatest part of his liberality, his favour; and from whom doth he hear discipline more willingly, or the arts discoursed more gladly, than from those whom his own bounty and benefits have made able and faithful?