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Toda prienda son affe∣ctation.
Every perfection with∣out affectation.
EVery perfection, eve∣ry excellency, must serve to adorn the Heros, but he must affect none, for affectation is the Con∣terpoids of greatnes.
Affectation is a tacit praysing of ones self, and for a man to com∣mend himself is the su∣rest way to be expos'd to scorn. Perfection must be in a mans self, but praise in
others: and 'tis a deserv'd punishment, that he that so foolishly remembers himself, should be as dis∣creetly forgotten by o∣thers.
There is nothing so free from servitude as estima∣tion, it is subject to no ar∣tifice, much lesse to vio∣lence. It yeelds it self soo∣ner to a dumb eloquence of deserts, than to a vanity of ostentation.
A little esteem of ones self hinders a great deal of applause from others.
All wise men judge eve∣ry affected quality rather to be violent than natu∣rall, rather apparent than
reall, and so it abates much of estimation.
All Narcissuses are fooles, but those that are so in their minds are incu∣rable, because their dis∣ease lyes in the remedie.
So then, if to affect per∣fections be a folly of * 1.1 eight, what degree shall be left for them that affect imperfections? By avoyd∣ing affectation, some fall into the very center of it, while they affect not to affect.
Tiberius lov'd dissimu∣lation, but he knew not how to dissemble his dis∣simulation. The perfecti∣on of an art consists in the
well disguising of it: and the greatest artifice must be cover'd with a greater than it self.
He that partaking of many perfections, seemes to have none in estimati∣on, is of a double greatnes, for by a generous disdain he awakens the common attention, and seeming to be blind in his own vir∣tues, He makes others o∣pen Argus's eyes upon him.
This may be call'd a miracle of dexterities, for if others rise to greatnes by other wayes, this guides him to a throne of fame by a contrary way, seting him
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