AThere is a wonderful relation and correspondence in this universal government of the works of nature, which well shows that it is neither accidental nor conducted by divers masters. The diseases and conditions of our bodies are seen also in states and governments: kingdoms and republics are born, flourish, and wither with age, as we do. We are subject to a useless and harmful surfeit of humors: either of good humors—for even this the doctors fear; and because there is nothing stable in us, they say that too blithe and vigorous a perfection of health must be artificially reduced and abated for
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