21. In malis sperare bonum, nisi innocens, nemo potest: none but a virtuous man can hope well in all circumstances.

22. In vindicando, criminosa est celeritas: in taking revenge, the very haste we make is criminal.

23. In calamitoso risus etiam injuria est: when men are in calamity, if we do but laugh we offend. 24. Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit: he accuseth Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.

25. Multis minatur, qui uni facit injuriam he that injures one, threatens an hundred.

26. Mora omnis ingrata est, sed facit sapientiam all delay is ungrateful, but we are not wise without it.

27. Mori est felicis antequam mortum invocit? happy he who dies ere he calls for death to take him away.

28. Malus ubi bonum se simulat, tunc est pessimus : an ill man is always ill; but he is then worst of all, when he pretends to be a saint.

29. Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis placet lock and key will scarce keep that secure which pleases every body.

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30. Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant : they think ill, who think of living always.

31. Male secum agit aeger, medicum qui haeredem facit that sick man does ill for himself, whe makes his physician his heir.

32 Multos timere debet, quem mul ti timent: he of whom many are afraid, ought himself to fear many.

33. Nulla tam bona est fortuna, de qua nil possis queri: there's no fortune so good, but it bates

an ace.

34. Pars beneficii est quod petitur, si bene neges: 'tis part of the gift, if you deny genteely what is asked of you.

35. Timidis vocat se cautem, parcum sordidus: the coward call himself a wary man; and the miser says, he is frugal.

36. O vita! misero longa, felici brevis : life! an age to him that is in misery; and to him that is happy, a moment.

37. It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power and lose liberty.

38. Children encrease the cares of life: but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

39. Round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like allay in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

40. Death opened the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

41. Schism, in the spiritual body of the church, is a greater scandal than a corruption in manners: as, in the natural body, a wound or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt-humour.

42. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

43. He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green.

44. Revengeful persons live and die like witches: Their life is mischievous, and their end is unfortunate.

45. It was an high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics,) that the good things which belong to prosperity, are to be wish'd; but the good things which belong to adversity, are to be -admired.

46. He that cannot see well, let him go softly.

47. If a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more -open.

48. Keep your authority wholly from your children, not so your purse.

49. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is alter'd; and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves go back.

50. That envy is most malignant which is like Cain's, who envied his brother, because his sacrifice was better accepted, when there was nobody but God to look on.

51. The lovers of great place are impatient of privateness, even in age, which requires the shadow: like old townsmen that will be still sitting at their street-door, though there they offer age to scorn.

52. In evil, the best condition is, not to will; the next, not to can.

53. In great place, ask counsel of both times: of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

54. As in nature things move more violently to their place, and calmly in their place: So virtue in ambition is violent; in authority, settled and calm.

55. Boldness in civil business, is like pronunciation in the orator of Demosthenes; the first, second, and third thing.

56. Boldness is blind: whereof 'tis ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers, in execution not to see them, except they be very great.

57. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin.

58. God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

59. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end.

60. The master of superstition is the people. And in all superstition, wise men follow fools.

61. In removing superstitions, care would be had, that (as it fareth in ill purgings,) the good be not taken away with the bad; which commonly is done, when the people is the physician.

62. He that goeth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

63. It is a miserable state of mind (and yet it is commonly the case of kings) to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.

64. Depression of the nobility may make a king more absolute, but less safe.

65. All precepts concerning kings, are, in effect, comprehended in these remembrances; remember thou art a man; remember thou art God's vicegerent: The one bridleth their power, and the

66. Things will have their first or second agi tation If they be not tossed upon the arguments of counsel, they will be tossed upon the waves of fortune.

67. The true composition of a counsellor, is rather to be skill'd in his master's business than his nature; for then he is like to advise him, and not to feed his humour.

68. Private opinion is more free, but opinion before others is more reverend.