of things, thus penetrating and passing through the objects,
to make their true nature known and apparent! This must thou use
all thy life long, and upon all occasions: and then especially,
when matters are apprehended as of great worth and respect, thy art
and care must be to uncover them, and to behold their vileness,
and to take away from them all those serious circumstances
and expressions, under which they made so grave a show.
For outward pomp and appearance is a great juggler; and then especially
art thou most in danger to be beguiled by it, when (to a man's thinking)
thou most seemest to be employed about matters of moment.

XII. See what Crates pronounceth concerning Xenocrates himself.

XIII. Those things which the common sort of people do admire,
are most of them such things as are very general, and may
be comprehended under things merely natural, or naturally
affected and qualified: as stones, wood, figs, vines, olives.
Those that be admired by them that are more moderate and restrained,
are comprehended under things animated: as flocks and herds.
Those that are yet more gentle and curious, their admiration is
commonly confined to reasonable creatures only; not in general as they
are reasonable, but as they are capable of art, or of some craft
and subtile invention: or perchance barely to reasonable creatures;
as they that delight in the possession of many slaves.
But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable
and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else:
and above all things is careful to preserve his own, in the
continual habit and exercise both of reason and sociableness:
and thereby doth co-operate with him, of whose nature he doth
also participate; God.