Re: Confidence

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, Essays, ii.

[16]Pliny, ii. "As though there were anyone more unhappy than a man
dominated by his imagination."

17Cicero, De Divinatione ii. 22. "A common happening does not astonish, even
though the cause is unknown; an event such as one has never seen before
passes for a prodigy."

[18]Allusion to Gen. 7. 14. Ipsi et omne animal secundus genus suum. "And
every beast after his kind."

19Homer, Odyssey, xviii.

20Livy, xxxiv. 17. "A brutal people, for whom, when they have not armour,
there is not life."

21Ecclus. 24:11. "With all these I have sought rest."

22"Terror which is more powerful than religion."

[23]"From fear that they are being led by terror, without guidance,
domination appears tyr