Applying to Prudence what Juvenal does to Fortune, and
with much greater force.]

66.--A clever man ought to so regulate his interests
that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so
often troubles us, making us run after so many things
at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after
the least we miss the greatest.

67.--What grace is to the body good sense is to the
mind.

68.--It is difficult to define love; all we can say is,
that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is
a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and deli-
cate wish to possess what we love--PLUS many
mysteries.

["Love is the love of one {singularly,} with desire to be
singularly beloved."--Hobbes{, LEVIATHAN, (1651), Part I,
Chapter VI}.]

{Two notes about this quotation: (1) the translators' mistakenly
have "singularity" for the first "singularly" and (2) Hobbes does
not actually write "Love is the..."--he writes "Love of one..."
under the heading "The passion of Love."}

69.--If there is a pure love, exempt from the mix-
ture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed
at the bottom of the heart and of which even our-