CHAPTER XIX.

OF THE MANNERS OF MEN IN POWER, AND OF SUCH AS PROSPER.

The manners of men _in power_, are the same, or better than those of the _rich_. They have a greater sense of honour than the rich, and their manners are more manly. They are more industrious than the rich, for _power_ is sustained by industry. They are grave, but without austereness; for being in place conspicuous, they carry themselves the more modestly; and have a kind of gentle and comely gravity, which the _Greeks_ call σεμνότης. When they do injuries, they do great ones.

The manners of men that _prosper_, are compounded of the manners of the _nobility_, the _rich_, and those that are _in power_; for to some of these all _prosperity_ appertains.

_Prosperity_ in children, and goods of the body, make men desire to exceed others in the goods of fortune.

Men that _prosper_ have this ill; to be more proud and inconsiderate than others. And this good; that they worship God, trusting in him, for that they find themselves to receive more good than proceeds from their industry.

The manners of _poor_ men, _obscure_ men, men _without power_, and men _in adversity_, may be collected from the contrary of what has been said.

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