imposture is ever ashamed of the light.

Icunculorum motio.--A puppet-play must be shadowed and seen in the
dark; for draw the curtain, et sordet gesticulatio. {24b}

Principes et administri.--There is a great difference in the
understanding of some princes, as in the quality of their ministers
about them. Some would dress their masters in gold, pearl, and all
true jewels of majesty; others furnish them with feathers, bells,
and ribands, and are therefore esteemed the fitter servants. But
they are ever good men that must make good the times; if the men be
naught, the times will be such. Finis exspectandus est in unoquoque
hominum; animali ad mutationem promptissmo. {25a}

Scitum Hispanicum.--It is a quick saying with the Spaniards, Artes
inter haeredes non dividi. {25b} Yet these have inherited their
fathers' lying, and they brag of it. He is a narrow-minded man that
affects a triumph in any glorious study; but to triumph in a lie,
and a lie themselves have forged, is frontless. Folly often goes
beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.

Non nova res livor.--Envy is no new thing, nor was it born only in
our times. The ages past have brought it forth, and the coming ages
will. So long as there are men fit for it, quorum odium virtute
relicta placet, it will never be wanting. It is a barbarous envy,
to take from those men's virtues which, because thou canst not
arrive at, thou impotently despairest to imitate. Is it a crime in
me that I know that which others had not yet known but from me? or
that I am the author of many things which never would have come in
thy thought but that I taught them? It is new but a foolish way you