Essaies: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion

...who proceed according to the rules of medicine original: "Art" regarding the disease, but they do not sufficiently respect the specific condition of the patient. Choose a doctor of a balanced temperament; or, if that cannot be found in one man, combine two of both types. And do not forget to call upon the person best acquainted with your body, as well as the one most highly regarded for his professional skill original: "facultie".

Of Honor and Reputation original: "Of Honour and reputation."

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The winning of honor is nothing more than the revealing of a man's virtue and worth without disadvantage. For some, in their actions, ostentatiously seek original: "affect" honor and reputation; these types of men are commonly talked about much, but are inwardly little admired. Others obscure their virtue in the very display of it, so that they are undervalued in public opinion. If a man performs that which hath