may effect their recovery?

LI. How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did,
are already gone out of it?

LII. To them that are sick of the jaundice, honey seems bitter;
and to them that are bitten by a mad dog, the water terrible;
and to children, a little ball seems a fine thing.
And why then should I be angry? or do I think that error
and false opinion is less powerful to make men transgress,
than either choler, being immoderate and excessive, to cause
the jaundice; or poison, to cause rage?

LIII. No man can hinder thee to live as thy nature doth require.
Nothing can happen unto thee, but what the common good of
nature doth require.

LIV. What manner of men they be whom they seek to please, and what to get,
and by what actions: how soon time will cover and bury all things,
and how many it hath already buried!


THE SEVENTH BOOK

I. What is wickedness ? It is that which many time
and often thou hast already seen and known in the world.
And so oft as anything doth happen that might otherwise
trouble thee, let this memento presently come to thy mind,
that it is that which thou hast already often Seen and known.
Generally, above and below, thou shalt find but the same things.