(1665, No. 258.)
L.--There is a general revolution which changes
the tastes of the mind as well as the fortunes of the
world. (1665, No. 250.)
LI.--Truth is foundation and the reason of the per-
fection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may
be, it cannot be beautiful and perfect unless it be
truly that she should be, and possess truly all that she
should have (1665, No. 260.)
[Beauty is truth, truth beauty.{--John Keats, "Ode on a
a Grecian Urn," (1820), Stanza 5}]
LII.--There are fine things which are more bril-
liant when unfinished than when finished too much.
(1665, No. 262.)
LIII.--Magnanimity is a noble effort of pride which
makes a man master of himself, to make him master
of all things. (1665, No. 271.)
LIV.--Luxury and too refined a policy in states are
a sure presage of their fall, because all parties looking
after their own interest turn away from the public
good. (1665, No. 282.)
LV.--Of all passions that which is least known to
us is idleness; she is the most ardent and evil of all,
although her violence may be insensible, and the evils
she causes concealed; if we consider her power
attentively we shall find that in all encounters she
makes herself mistress of our sentiments, our in-
terests, and our pleasures; like the (fabled) Remora,
she can stop the greatest vessels, she is a hidden rock,
more dangerous in the most important matters than
sudden squalls and the most violent tempests.
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