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Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
 How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their 
signatures to the very essays they write on the read more 
 How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their 
signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of 
despising glory. 
 An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
 [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]  
 An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
 [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.] 
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
 That eagle's fate and mine are one,
 Which, on the shaft that made him die,
  Espied a read more 
 That eagle's fate and mine are one,
 Which, on the shaft that made him die,
  Espied a feather of his own,
   Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.
He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.
The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.