A native, if he be vicious,
deserves to be a stranger, and cast out of the commonwealth as an
alien.
Dejectio Aulic.--A dejected countenance and mean clothes beget often
a contempt, but it is with the shallowest creatures; courtiers
commonly: look up even with them in a new suit, you get above them
straight. Nothing is more short-lived than pride; it is but while
their clothes last: stay but while these are worn out, you cannot
wish the thing more wretched or dejected.
Poesis, et pictura.--Plutarch. Poetry and picture are arts of a
like nature, and both are busy about imitation. It was excellently
said of Plutarch, poetry was a speaking picture, and picture a mute
poesy. For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate all they invent to the use and service of Nature. Yet
of the two, the pen is more noble than the pencil; for that can
speak to the understanding, the other but to the sense. They both
behold pleasure and profit as their common object; but should
abstain from all base pleasures, lest they should err from their
end, and, while they seek to better men's minds, destroy their
manners.
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