Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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[ 967] Time, the least moment thereof cannot be assured.
ALexander being much taken with the witty answers of Diogenes,* 1.1 bad him
ask what he would, and he should have it. The Philosopher demandeth the
least proportion of Immortality. That's not in my gift, saies Alexander. No, quoth
Diogenes?* 1.2 then why doth Alexander take such pains, to conquer the World,
when he cannot assure himself of one moment to enjoy it? What the Cynick said to
this great Conquerour, may very well be retorted upon many in our age; How
do many men turmoil themselves, in the pursuit after riches, honours, and pre∣ferments,
per fas & nefas, no matter how they come by them; yet when all's done,
they cannot add one cub••te to their stature, not one minute to their live, wherein he
may take comfort in them.