There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between
fencing and fighting. To make arguments in my study, and confute
them, is easy; where I answer myself, not an adversary. So I can
see whole volumes dispatched by the umbratical doctors on all sides:
but draw these forth into the just lists: let them appear sub dio,
and they are changed with the place, like bodies bred in the shade;
they cannot suffer the sun or a shower, nor bear the open air; they
scarce can find themselves, that they were wont to domineer so among
their auditors: but indeed I would no more choose a rhetorician for
reigning in a school, than I would a pilot for rowing in a pond.
Amor et odium.--Love that is ignorant, and hatred, have almost the
same ends: many foolish lovers wish the same to their friends,
which their enemies would: as to wish a friend banished, that they
might accompany him in exile; or some great want, that they might
relieve him; or a disease, that they might sit by him. They make a
causeway to their country by injury, as if it were not honester to
do nothing than to seek a way to do good by a mischief.
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