book ii

. chap. xl._

[712-5] See Washington, page 425.

[712-6] The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.--PLUTARCH: _Of the Tranquillity of the Mind._

[712-7] In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.--EPICTETUS: _That everything is to be undertaken with circumspection, chap. xv._

[713-1] Syrus was not a contemporary of Franklin.

[713-2] No just man ever became rich all at once.--MENANDER: _Fragment._

[713-3] See Butler, page 213.

[713-4] See Shakespeare, page 64.

[713-5] See Bacon, page 166.

[713-6] See Dryden, page 269.

[714-1] See Shakespeare, page 72.

[714-2] See Maxim 144.

[714-3] See Shakespeare, page 102.

[714-4] Simonides said "that he never repented that he held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."--PLUTARCH: _Rules for the Preservation of Health._

SENECA. 8 B. C.-65 A. D.

Not lost, but gone before.[714-6]

_Epistolæ. 63, 16._

Whom they have injured they also hate.[714-7]

_De Ira. ii. 33._

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.[714-8]

_De Providentia. 5, 9._

There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.[714-9]

_De Tranquillitate Animi. 17._

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.[714-10]

_Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84._

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.[715-1]

_Hercules Furens. 255._

A good man possesses a kingdom.[715-2]

_Thyestes. 380._

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.[715-3]

_On a Happy Life. 2._ (_L' Estrange's Abstract, Chap. i._)

FOOTNOTES:

[714-5] See Cowper, page 424.

[714-6] See Rogers, page 455.

[714-7] See Dryden, page 275.

[714-8] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 197.

[714-9] See Dryden, page 267.

[714-10] See Theobald, page 352.

[715-1] See Harrington, page 39.

[715-2] See Dyer, page 22.

[715-3] See Watts, page 303.

PHÆDRUS. 8 A. D.

(_Translation by H. T. Riley, B. A._[715-4])

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

_Book i. Fable 2, 31._

He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.

_Book i. Fable 4, 1._

That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.

_Book i. Fable 9, 1._

Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.

_Book i. Fable 10, 1._

By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

_Book i. Fable 13, 13._

No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.

_Book i. Fable 18, 1._

It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.[715-5]

_Book i. Fable 25, 3._

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

_Book i. Fable 26, 12._

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

_Book iii. The Prologue, 27._

Things are not always what they seem.[716-1]

_Book iv. Fable 2, 5._

Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before.[716-2]

_Book iv. Fable 10, 1._

A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.[716-3]

_Book iv. Fable 23, 1._

A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"

_Book v. Fable 3, 1._

"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.

_Book v. Fable 9, 4._

FOOTNOTES:

[715-4] Bohn's Classical Library.

[715-5] Pliny in his "Natural History,"