[ 1524] Men usually judging others to be like themselves.
IT is said of Moses and Ioshua,* 1.1 that when they were coming down from the Mountain, and heard a noise in the Camp, Ioshua said; There was a noise of War;* 1.2 But Moses said, the noise of them that sing do I hear. Here was now great difference of these two great Mens Iudgments; but the reason was, that Ioshua being a Martial man, therefore judgeth the noise to be a noise of War; but Moses being a Man of Peace, judgeth the noise to be a noise of Peace, each of them judging according to their several dispositions: Hence is that of the Phi∣losopher, Qualis quisque est, tales existimat alios,* 1.3 such as every one is, the same he thinketh others to be, measuring of other Mens actions by his own bushel; The Lascivious Man thinketh others to be lascivious, The Covetous person thinks others to be Covetous, the Fool thinks every Man to be as arrant a Wise man as himself,* 1.4 hoc proclivius suspicatur in alio, &c. Every Man readily suspects that of another, which he findeth in himself.