Section 9 (part 2)

Or in the third place, it is impelled when it is not proper, and to objects to which it ought not to tend. 22. Endeavour not to conceal your errors p. 49 by words, but to remedy them by reproof. 23. It is not so difficult to err, as not to reprove him who errs. 24. As a bodily disease cannot be healed, if it be concealed, or praised, thus also, neither can a remedy be applied to a diseased soul, which is badly guarded and protected. 25. The grace of freedom of speech, like beauty in season, is productive of greater delight. 26. It is not proper either to have a blunt sword or to use freedom of speech ineffectually. 27. Neither is the sun to be taken from the world nor freedom of speech from erudition. 28. As it is possible for one who is clothed with a sordid robe, to have a good habit of body; thus also he whose life is poor may possess freedom of speech. 29. Be rather delighted with those that reprove, than with those that flatter you; but avoid flatterers, as worse than enemies. 30. The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet. For though it has all things requisite to a feast, yet no one present rejoices. p. 50 31. Acquire continence as the greatest strength and wealth. 32. "Not frequently man from man," is one of the exhortations of Pythagoras; by which he obscurely signifies, that it is not proper to be frequently engaged in venereal connexions. 33. It is impossible that he can be free who is a slave to his passions. 34. Pythagoras said, that intoxication is the meditation of insanity. 35. Pythagoras being asked, how a lover of wine might be cured of intoxication, answered, if he frequently surveys what his actions were when he was intoxicated. 36. Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence. 37. Let it be more eligible to you to throw a stone in vain, than to utter an idle word. 38. Do not say a few things in many words, but much in a few words. 39. Genius is to men either a good or an evil dæmon. 40. Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, p. 51 when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother. 41. Travelling teaches a man frugality, and the way in which he may be sufficient to himself. For bread made of milk and flour, and a bed of grass, are the sweetest remedies of hunger and labour. 42. To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul. 43. Pythagoras said that luxury entered into cities in the first place, afterwards satiety, then lascivious insolence, and after all these, destruction. 44. Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best which contained most worthy men. 45. Do those things which you judge to be beautiful, though in doing them you should be without renown. For the rabble is a bad judge of a good thing. Despise, therefore, the reprehension of those whose praise you despise. 46. Those that do not punish bad men, wish that good men may be injured. 47. It is not possible for a horse to be p. 52 governed without bridle, nor riches without prudence. 48. It is the same thing to think greatly of yourself in prosperity, as to contend in the race in a slippery road. 49.