He that can be quite indifferent when he seeth another Man injured, hath a lukewarm Honesty that a wise Man will not depend upon. He that is not concerned when he seeth an ill thing done to another, will not be very eager to do a good one himself. [Sidenote: _Hypocrisy._] There is so much Wit necessary to make a skilful Hypocrite, that the Faculty is fallen amongst Bunglers, who make it ridiculous. [Sidenote: _Injury._] An Injury may more properly be said to be postponed, than to be forgiven. The Memory of it is never so subdued, but that it hath always Life in it. The Memory of an Enemy admitteth no decay but Age. Could we know what Men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. It is a general Fault that we dislike Men only for the Injuries they do to us, and not for those they do to Mankind. Yet it will be hard to give a good Reason why a Man who hath done a deliberate Injury to one, will not do it to another. The Memory and the Conscience never did, nor never will agree about forgiving Injuries. Nature is Second to the Memory, and Religion to the Conscience. When the Seconds fight, the latter is generally disarmed. [Sidenote: _Integrity._] A Man in a corrupted Age must make a Secret of his Integrity, or else he will be looked upon as a common Enemy. He must engage his Friends not to speak of it; for he setteth himself for a Mark to be ill used. [Sidenote: _Justice._] As far as keeping distance is a sign of Respect, Mankind hath a great deal for Justice. They make up in Ceremony what they want in Good-will to it. Where the Generality are Offenders, Justice cometh to be Cruelty. [Sidenote: _To Love, and be in Love different._] To Love, and to be in Love with any thing, are Things as differing, as good Sense and Impertinence. When we once go beyond bare liking, we are in danger of parting with Good-Sense; and it is not easy for Good-Sense to get so far as liking. [Sidenote: _Lucre._] When by habit a Man cometh to have a bargaining Soul, its Wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth Reason an Apprentice to Gain, and instead of a Director, maketh it a Drudge. [Sidenote: _Lying._] The being kind to a Lyar, is abetting a Treason against Mankind. A Man is to inform the first Magistrate, that he may be clap'd up. Lies are embroidered with Promises and Excuses. A known Lyar should be outlawed in a well ordered Government. A Man that renounceth Truth, runneth away from his trial in the World. The use of Talking is almost lost in the World by the habit of Lying. A Man that doth not tell all the Truth, ought to be hanged for a Clipper. Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made. It is the more dexterous, but not the less criminal kind of Lying. [Sidenote: _Names._] Names to Men of Sense are no more than Fig-leaves; to the generality they are thick Coverings that hide the Nature of Things from them.