potentially gradually limited

keep their word, without faith, without honour,
without truth, deceitful in heart, deceitful in speech; for which that
amphibious animal in fable was once reproached, which held itself in a
doubtful position between the fish and the birds...

It is important to kings and princes to be considered pious; therefore they
must confess themselves to you.

THE END

[1]"Abstain and uphold." Stoic maxim.

2Petronius, 90. "You have spoken more as a poet than as a man."

[3]"Nothing in excess."

[4]Horace, Epistle to the pisos, 447. "They curtailed pretentious
ornaments."

5Title given by Pico della Mirandola to one of his proposed nine hundred
theses, in 1486.

[6]Tacitus, Annals, iv. "Kindnesses are agreeable so long as one thinks them
possible to render; further, recognition makes way for hatred."

7St. Augustine, City of God, xxi. 10. "The manner in which the spirit is
united to the body can not be understood by man; and yet it is man."

[8]Virgil, Georgics, ii. "Happy is he who is able to know the causes of
things."

[9]Horace, Epistles, I. vi. 1. " To be astonished at nothing is nearly the
only thing which can give and conserve happiness."

[10]Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, i, ii Harum sententiarum quae vera
sit, Deus aliquis viderit. "Which of these opinions in the truth, a god will
see."

[11]Montaigne, Essays, ii.

[12]Montaigne, Essays, ii.

[13]Treatise on the Vacuum.

[14]Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, III. v. 8. "There is one who will say
great foolishness with great effort."

[15]Montaigne,


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