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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49597	Epictetus junior, or, Maximes of modern morality in two centuries / collected by J.D. of Kidwelly.; Maximes. English	La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1670 (1670)	Wing L451; ESTC R10485	25,133	156

who is not offended at any thing CLXXXVI There may be several causes assigned why we meet with so few persons whom we allow to be rational and divertive in conversation Of which this is one that there is hardly any body whose thoughts are not rather taken up with what he hath a mind to say himself than in precisely answering what had been said to him and that persons of greatest abilities and complaisance think it enough to make a show of attention in their countenances even when there may be observ'd in their looks and apprehensions a certain distraction and a precipitancy of returning to what they would say instead of considering that it is an unlikely method of pleasing or perswading others to be so intentive to please themselves and that to hearken attentively and to answer pertinently is one of the greatest perfections a man can be Master of CLXXXVII We will not say with Monsieur de la Chambre in his Art how to know men that all the formations of the parts in a Woman are Prognosticks of Vice since it holds not true in other Countries though haply it may in his but this we shall not stick to affirm of the Sex in general that the pretty humour they have in talking their desire of gaudiness in apparel that of being waited on into Parks Walks Spring-Gardens or any other place where they may make ostentation of their artifices in heightning the advantages of Art or Nature all which accomplishments with divers others the French comprehend in the word Coquetterie are so necessary to the composition of a Woman that without some of them she must disclaim her name Yet have not all of that Sex the exercise of it because this Coquetterie in some of them is check'd and restrain'd by their Temperament their Reason and want of conveniences and opportunities CLXXXVIII Gallantry is a volubility of the mind whereby it penetrates into things the most insinuating and colloguing that is such as are most likely to please CLXXXIX Politeness is an artificial improvement and cultivation of the mind whereby superfluous excrescencies are kept under in order to the production of what will be decent delightful and beautiful CXC There are certain ingenious things which the mind seeks not after but finds brought to their full perfection in it self so that it should seem they lay hid there as Gold and Diamonds do in the bosom of the earth CXC When Kingdoms are come to their height in point of politeness and civilization it argues the approach of their declination inasmuch as then all their particular Inhabitants are bent upon the pursuit of their private concerns and diverted from promoting the publick good CXCI. If it be enquired why some men are so liberal of their civilities towards others it may be answer'd that it is done partly out of an expectation of having the like return'd to them and partly out of a desire of gaining the repute of understanding the mysteries of Civility CXCII The Magisterial part of a person who hath the repute of being well vers'd in humane affairs is that he perfectly know the value of every thing CXCIII It happens sometimes that Vices are hated but the indigency of Virtue never escapes contempt CXCIV When a man cannot find tranquillity within himself 't is to no purpose for him to seek it elsewhere CXCV. That which many times obstructs our right judging of those sentences which prove that there may be only a show and pretence of Virtues is this that we are over-easily inclin'd to believe them real in our selves CXCVI. If men are advanc'd to great Charges they accordingly meet with the greater difficulties in the administration of them Among those that of a Supream Governour is the greatest and of this qualification again that Prince hath the hardest task of Government incumbent upon him whose subjects are distracted into a greater multiplicity of perswasions CXCVII If that great Prince who first had the denomination of Wise given him and infinitely transcended in that Attribute all those who assum'd it some Ages after him concluded his Ethical Recantations with a Vanity of Vanities all is Vanity what is there left for us to say who are fallen into the dregs of Time but the same thing in other words That in all humane prescriptions there is an apparent dose of Vanity that there is an eye of it runs through the whole Web of mortal Transactions not to be worn out of them till the final dissolution of all things CXCVIII. Of all the kinds of Vanity that may be ranked among the highest or rather may claim a certain supremacy which some persons are commonly subject to who to gain the repute of ingenuity with others speak such things as cannot fall from them without a secret compunction upon the delivery thereof Of this predicament are they who employ their drollery upon the subject of Obscenity and Atheism As to the former the greatest end they can propose to themselves is to have it imagin'd that their forces as to the Venereal Militia have been or are in some measure answerable to the Muster they make of them in their discourse or at least that their well-wishes and inclinations to the service are as great as ever Of the latter this may be said that their satyrizing in divine concerns discovers their unsetled apprehensions of a future Being and begets in those whom they seem to divert a secret horrour for their positions and a disrespect for their persons CXCIX How strangely hath Providence ordered the conduct of humane affairs that they who are insatiably desirous of wealth honours or pleasures should for the most part obtain their desires though prosecuted by indirect courses What greater encouragement can they have whose generous ambition aspires to things of a more permanent concern that their industry shall be rewarded If they whose apprehensions of happiness are confin'd to the narrow limits of this world are many times gratifi'd with the success they propose to themselves what accumulation of recompence may not they expect who adjourning their felicity to the other are no less fervent in the pursuance of it CC. It was an excellent Dichotomy of things found out by my Predecessor of famous memory the ancient Philosopher Epictetus that they are either dependent on us or not What a man is possess'd of within the sphere of that dependency on himself he may truly call his own and look on as contributory to his happiness and satisfaction what are out of it must if he survey them not with an indifferent eye prove the continual exercise of his hopes and fears and so many disturbances of his tranquility FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for and are to be sold by Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street 1669. Folios COsmography in 4 Books containing the Chorography and History of the World by Pet. 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