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To Abstaine & to Sustaine, are virtues proceeding com∣monly from the same habit.
Vniformities, concords, and Measures of motions, are things celestiall, and the characters of Eternity.
Temperance as wholsome coldes, concenterate and streng∣then
the forces of the Mind.
Too exquisite and wandring senses, had need of Narco∣tiques; and so likewise wan∣dring affections.
I like not these negative vir∣tues; for they argue Innocence not Merit.
That mind languisheth which is not sometimes spirited by ex∣cesse.
I like those virtues which in∣duce the vivacity of Action, and not the dulnesse of Passion.
When you set downe the e∣quall tempers of the mind, you set downe but few; nam pau∣peris est numerare pecus.
These Stoicismes (not to use that so you may not desire; not to desire that so you may not feare) are the resolutions of pu∣sillanimous and distrustfull natures.