us from the fear of death, of pain, of shame itself: there she arms us
opportunity presents itself, she leads us on to the hazards of war:
"Non emolumento aliquo, sed ipsius honestatis decore."
["Not for any profit, but for the honour.html">honour of honesty itself."
and hoped for, than, honour and glory, which are no other than a
of land; and the judgment.html">judgment of our inclinations and actions, the most
determination of the rabble, the mother of ignorance, injustice, and
depend upon the judgment of fools?
"An quidquam stultius, quam, quos singulos contemnas,
singly, can be anything else in general."
never have done; 'tis a mark that can never be aimed at or hit:
"Nil tam inaestimabile est, quam animi multitudinis."
["Nothing is to be so little understood as the minds of the
more account of that which came from above than of that which came from
esse non turpe, quum id a multitudine laudatur."
["I am of opinion, that though a thing be not foul in itself,
--Cicero, De Finib., ii. 15.]
No art, no activity of wit, could conduct our steps so as to follow so
of vulgar reports and opinions that drive us on, no way worth anything
an end; let us follow constantly after reason.html">reason; let the public approbation
have no reason sooner to expect it by any other way than that. Even
however, follow it as having experimentally found that, at the end of
ut honesta magis juvarent."
["This gift Providence has given to men, that honest things should
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