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There are Sets of Fellows, Enemies to Love, and Lovers of Profit, who make it a Part of their Business, when they see two Persons of different Sexes walk out to take the Air, to dog them about from Place to Place, and observe their Motions, while they themselves are concealed -- as if there were no Sin, according to them, but Fornication, or other Virtue besides keeping the Sabbath. [Edward Burt]

Non si quid improba Roma, Elevet, accedas examenque improbum in illa, Perpendas trutina, nec te quaesiveris extra (If wicked Rome disparages you, don't seek to tinker with their false balance or look to anybody but yourself.) A wise man's Kingdom is his own Breast.

[Hume's] reading of the antique writers, with their 'Reflections against Death & Poverty &Shame & Pain & all the other Calamities of Life', made him not Stoical but morbid. He broke out into spots on his fingers. He salivated. He consulted a doctor who 'laugh't at me & told me I was now a brother, for that I had fairly got the Disease of the Learned.'