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Because it does not know the true light.
Necessity is the theme and the
inventress, the eternal curb and lawof nature.
O mathematicians shed light on
this error. Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do
againstthe cold. I,referring also to speculators, is given by LIBRI (_Hist,
desSciences math. Several moral reflections have alreadybeen given in Vol. AS
TO WHETHER A SPIRIT HAS A BODY AMID THE ELEMENTS.
To speak well of a base man
is much the same as speaking ill of agood man. OF THE ERRORS OF THOSE WHO
DEPEND ON PRACTICE WITHOUT SCIENCE. Envy wounds with false accusations, that is
with detraction, a thingwhich scares virtue. He who takes the snake by the tail
will presently be bitten by it.
The work is the first thing born of this union;
if the thing lovedis base the lover becomes base. --Now whatkind of warfare is
there to hurt the enemy so much as to deprive himof the harvest?
Nature is full
of infinite causes that have never occured inexperience. When Fortune comes,
seize her in front with a sure hand, becausebehind she is bald. --Aeliani et
Leonis, imperatoris tactica,Lugd.
Why did nature not ordain that one animal
should not live by thedeath of another? For nothing can be loved or hated
unless it is first known.
O mathematicians shed light on this error.
consumer
of all things, and O envious age!
Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights
with the results oflascivious joys. Threats alone are the weapons of the
threatened man. Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.
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