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  1 Pref  |       carry yourself to all men a man of all hours. Wherefore
  2 Pref  |         discourse of trifles as a man may seem to have intended
  3 Pref  |     excellent an advocate that no man better defends his client,
  4 Praise|       impudent flatterer equals a man of nothing to the gods and
  5 Praise|        you who I am? Or as if any man, mistaking me for wisdom,
  6 Praise|        dotage. In fine, that wise man whoever he be, if he intends
  7 Praise|           me, I beseech you, what man is that would submit his
  8 Praise|          by Jupiter, what part of man’s life is that that is not
  9 Praise|        first, who knows not but a man’s infancy is the merriest
 10 Praise|           to savor something like man, if in the same instant
 11 Praise|          have as much wisdom as a man?—according to that common
 12 Praise|        not like a child that is a man too soon.” Or who would
 13 Praise|          friendship with that old man who to so large an experience
 14 Praise|        cares that distract a wise man; he is not the less pot
 15 Praise|  sometimes too, like Plautus’ old man, he returns to his three
 16 Praise|            But I restore the same man to the best and happiest
 17 Praise|          hard a thing it is for a man to be happy in all things.
 18 Praise|        passions, that the life of man might not be altogether
 19 Praise|           the fool twice, as if a man should “teach a cow to dance,” “
 20 Praise|          speak plain old age in a man, but from that disease of
 21 Praise|          that they may please the man? For to what other purpose
 22 Praise|        odd gambols pass between a man and his woman, as often
 23 Praise|           and chiefest delight of man’s life springs.~But there
 24 Praise|          Since then the nature of man is such that there is scarce
 25 Praise|         so ugly, and “that an old man dotes on his old wife, and
 26 Praise|        not the converse between a man and his wife supported and
 27 Praise|        the house kept in quiet. A man is laughed at, when seeing
 28 Praise|     should exclude me, there’s no man but would be so far from
 29 Praise|           the whole business of a man’s life he can do with any
 30 Praise|           more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than
 31 Praise|          not the contrary, that a man does against the hair? Take
 32 Praise|         will be able to please no man, the player be hissed off
 33 Praise|           beast instead of a wise man, a child instead of eloquent,
 34 Praise|        and instead of a well-bred man, a clown. So necessary a
 35 Praise|        point of happiness “that a man is willing to be what he
 36 Praise|        this my Self-love, that no man is ashamed of his own face,
 37 Praise|       ashamed of his own face, no man of his own wit, no man of
 38 Praise|         no man of his own wit, no man of his own parentage, no
 39 Praise|          of his own parentage, no man of his own house, no man
 40 Praise|          man of his own house, no man of his manner of living,
 41 Praise|         manner of living, nor any man of his own country; so that
 42 Praise|           his opinion that a wise man should abstain from meddling
 43 Praise|       would have put courage in a man of war? Or Isocrates, that
 44 Praise|    offices of life. Invite a wise man to a feast and he’ll spoil
 45 Praise|        were rather a stock than a man, of so little use is he
 46 Praise|           and hedgehog. What wise man’s oration could ever have
 47 Praise|          divine honors given to a man of no reputation, and the
 48 Praise|          more proper? To the wise man, who partly out of modesty
 49 Praise|           from anything? The wise man has recourse to the books
 50 Praise|        woman, and another while a man; now a youngster, and by
 51 Praise|      living.~And here if any wise man, as it were dropped from
 52 Praise|          what is not so much as a man, for that like a beast he
 53 Praise|          Again if he should bid a man that were bewailing the
 54 Praise|           part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his
 55 Praise|       inasmuch as we judge a wise man from a fool by this, that
 56 Praise|         Stoics remove from a wise man all disturbances of mind
 57 Praise|     denies, and takes from a wise man all affections whatever,
 58 Praise|       leaves him not so much as a man but rather a new kind of
 59 Praise|         up a stony semblance of a man, void of all sense and common
 60 Praise|       good to them with this wise man of theirs; let them enjoy
 61 Praise|        shun and startle at such a man, as at some unnatural accident
 62 Praise|   unnatural accident or spirit? A man dead to all sense of nature
 63 Praise|          only wise, the only free man, and only king; in brief,
 64 Praise|          king; in brief, the only man that is everything, but
 65 Praise|         for the friendship of any man, being himself a friend
 66 Praise|      being himself a friend to no man; makes no doubt to make
 67 Praise|           this their perfect wise man. But tell me pray, if the
 68 Praise|           I am weary of this wise man, and therefore I’ll proceed
 69 Praise| advantages.~Go to then. Suppose a man in some lofty high tower,
 70 Praise|         would he find the life of man subject? How miserable,
 71 Praise|        nothing of those evils one man brings upon another, as
 72 Praise|        Cassius, Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality,
 73 Praise|         so much as the shape of a man; stutterers, dotards, toothless,
 74 Praise| flickering about her than a young man would have been ashamed
 75 Praise|            If a stone fall upon a man’s head, that’s evil indeed;
 76 Praise|          more hurt in them than a man is sensible of; and if a
 77 Praise|          is sensible of; and if a man have no sense of them, they
 78 Praise|      applaud yourself? And that a man be able to do so, he must
 79 Praise|           a miserable thing for a man to be foolish, to err, mistake,
 80 Praise|           rather, this is to be a man. And why they should call
 81 Praise|     unless perhaps you’ll think a man such because he can neither
 82 Praise|         not miserable, no more is man in this respect, for that
 83 Praise|         was particularly added to man the knowledge of sciences,
 84 Praise|       have so slept when she made man, that he should have need
 85 Praise|           of grammar, where every man spoke the same language
 86 Praise|      believing it a crime for any man to attempt to be wise beyond
 87 Praise|      alone is work enough for any man for his whole life.~Though
 88 Praise|         horse, that comes so near man in understanding and is
 89 Praise|          than the present, if yet man would but let them alone
 90 Praise|      everything, a philosopher, a man, a woman, a king, a private
 91 Praise|          woman, a king, a private man, a fish, a horse, a frog,
 92 Praise|           was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures
 93 Praise|        that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
 94 Praise|           attempt anything beyond man. Go to then, let’s try how
 95 Praise|        envious, nor love they any man. And lastly, if they should
 96 Praise|            if it came from a wise man’s mouth might prove a capital
 97 Praise|        picture of this great wise man.~And here again do those
 98 Praise|        else is madness than for a man to be out of his wits? But
 99 Praise|  presented; yet in other things a man well enough, pleasant among
100 Praise|      distemper and become his own man again, he thus expostulates
101 Praise|        take it to be. For one mad man laughs at another, and beget
102 Praise|       less mad. And in this every man is the more happy in how
103 Praise|      complain of the shortness of man’s life that is not sufficient
104 Praise|        choose rather to cheat any man of their just debts than
105 Praise|         the like—should this wise man chat to the people, from
106 Praise|          the most pleasant when a man, seeing another any way
107 Praise|      venture a rubber at cuffs, a man otherwise so weak he could
108 Praise|   therefore if the more foolish a man is, the more he pleases
109 Praise|       more than the soothing of a man’s self, which, done to another,
110 Praise|           yet what more loving to man? Unless, perhaps you’ll
111 Praise|          In short, it makes every man the more jocund and acceptable
112 Praise|         life. Lastly, the mind of man is so framed that it is
113 Praise|          as to the thing itself a man’s whole endeavor is required,
114 Praise|          happiness. For suppose a man were eating rotten stockfish,
115 Praise|      happier than the other? If a man have a crooked, ill-favored
116 Praise|       need to wish, and that wise man, who, being got loose from
117 Praise|          as one-quarter of a wise man, among them all.~For whereas
118 Praise|         trouble? Nor is there any man living whom I let be without
119 Praise|    omission may chance to spoil a man’s business; and therefore
120 Praise|     familiarity with them.~But no man, you’ll say, ever sacrificed
121 Praise|           by right or wrong. This man is ever laboring for public
122 Praise|          business. In short, if a man like Menippus of old could
123 Praise|       philosopher, a physician, a man master of them all, and
124 Praise|         decided by the sword if a man made an adverb of a conjunction.
125 Praise|           examined; envying every man’s attempts in this kind,
126 Praise|          so highly does this wise man value the approbation of
127 Praise|       enter the lists against any man upon any point, as not doubting
128 Praise|       time he might be said to be man; whether after the Resurrection
129 Praise|         to set a stitch on a poor man’s shoe on the Sabbath day;
130 Praise|           Sabbath day; and that a man should rather choose that
131 Praise|      grace and grace that makes a man acceptable? They exhort
132 Praise|           good with them? As if a man should set a conjurer on
133 Praise|         Thomas himself can make a man a Christian, without these
134 Praise|          another commonwealth, no man dares despise, especially
135 Praise|           the least need of it. A man would swear they were past
136 Praise|          comes up to something, a man should press it more earnestly,
137 Praise|         their whole action that a man would swear they had learned
138 Praise|          are both so like that no man will dispute but that either
139 Praise|          as they sometimes are, a man ignorant of laws, little
140 Praise|         are the arts that speak a man truly noble and an exact
141 Praise|          out a new way by which a man may kill his brother without
142 Praise|      might appear that there’s no man can live pleasantly unless
143 Praise|     rapine and usury. Again, if a man sue for honors or church
144 Praise|       sooner get them than a wise man. If a man’s in love with
145 Praise|        them than a wise man. If a man’s in love with a young wench,
146 Praise|          and are afraid of a wise man and fly him as they would
147 Praise|           money; which, as a wise man condemns it, so it takes
148 Praise|           point.~And first, every man allows this proverb, “That
149 Praise|       this proverb, “That where a man wants matter, he may best
150 Praise|        tis a question whether any man ever saw? But more ingeniously
151 Praise|        confess it, saying, “Every man is made a fool through his
152 Praise|         else, and again, “Let not man glory in his wisdom.” And
153 Praise|    Jeremiah, would you not have a man glory in his wisdom? Because,
154 Praise|          said before, the life of man is nothing else but an interlude
155 Praise|           as the moon, but a wise man is permanent as the sun,”
156 Praise|          not wise, and every good man according to the Stoics
157 Praise|           to the Stoics is a wise man, it is no wonder if all
158 Praise|          of doors;” which, if any man shall be so ungracious as
159 Praise|        wisdom, which he forbids a man to hide, is of less account
160 Praise|         own words, “Better is the man that hideth his folly than
161 Praise|     malice to a fool, when a wise man the while thinks no man
162 Praise|           man the while thinks no man like himself? For so I understand
163 Praise|         integrity to esteem every man as good as himself, and
164 Praise|          is more foolish than any man. Nor did Paul, that great
165 Praise|           of respect I pass by, a man of no small repute, who
166 Praise|           wondered what ailed the man, at last he explained it
167 Praise|          were present admired the man’s wit, and consequently
168 Praise|     taking upon him the nature of man, he was found in shape as
169 Praise|           was found in shape as a man; as in like manner he was
170 Praise|           of the World, God, gave man an injunction against his
171 Praise|           common consent of every man, ’tis downright madness.
172 Praise|         shadows. For as this wise man pitied and bewailed their
173 Praise|          it were natural to every man, as the love of one’s country,
174 Praise|         count it not enough for a man to abstain from eating,
175 Praise|        among another. This a holy man does, and in this is his
176 Praise|    without hypocrisy, does a holy man fly those things that have
177 Praise|          yourself,” “He’s his own man again”? Besides, the more
178 Praise|          parts; so that the whole man is to be out of himself
179 Praise|         entered into the heart of man to consider what God has
180 Praise|           my own making: I hate a man that remembers what he hears.