_Perseus_ | Diligence or |Torpor, Idleness, Inertia, | | | Solicitude. | Foolish Occupation, | | | | Perturbation, Vain | | | | solicitude. | |12. _Triptolemus_| Humanity or |Misanthropy, Envy, | | | Philanthropy. | Malignity. | +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+ There follow as "virtues":--Sagacity, judicious election or choice, affability, magnanimity (_Aquila_); divine enthusiasm or rapture (_Pegasus_); hopefulness, faith and sincerity (the _Triangle_); virtuous emulation, tolerance, sociability (and friendship--the _Pleiades_); love (peace and friendship--_Gemini_); conversion or emendation, heroic generosity (or magnanimity, again--_Leo_); continence, equity (and justice--_Libra_); sincerity (observance of promises--_Scorpio_); contemplation, the love of solitude (freedom of mind), temperance (_Aquarius_); just reserve and taciturnity, tranquillity of mind, industry, prudent fear, vigilance for the state, kindliness, liberality, judicious sagacity (_Hydra_); divine magic (and soothsaying), abstinence (the _Cup_!), the divine parable (the sacred mystery,--_Chiron_); sincere piety and wise religion (the _Altar_); honour, glory, and, finally, health, security and repose, as the due reward of the virtues, and remuneration for zealous work and endurance.[450] It will be seen that the list is redundant, and it is more so in the text, where several virtues are usually given under each head. Several of the names do not denote virtues in the ordinary sense (_e.g._ knowledge of magic, ability to interpret the divine parables): they are merely qualities which it is desirable for the good man to have. Others refer to qualities which could not be acquired by any one destitute of them (_e.g._ hope, love, piety), while others represent rather the outcome of the virtuous life than any one of its constituent elements, _e.g._ Knowledge, Divine Enthusiasm, Contemplation, Honour. There remain the familiar virtues of Greek philosophy:--Courage; prudence and sagacity; temperance (continence and abstinence); wisdom (or the love of truth); justice, including submission to law, active justice or judgment, and equity; sincerity, with truthfulness, simplicity, faith, the observance of promises; sociability and friendliness, with humanity, affability, tolerance, kindliness; liberality; magnanimity and heroic generosity; tranquillity or gentleness. More modern are the virtues of solicitude, diligence or industry, of emulation, and of love of solitude, or "Monachism." There is accordingly nothing of value to be derived for systematic ethics from this or from any other work of Bruno. It is in the digressions from the main argument that his philosophy of practical life is revealed.[451] [Sidenote: Peace and liberty.] [Sidenote: Law]