Non enim qui sapiens est, ut dixere stoici, dives est sed contra qui dives est sapiens est dicendus est. Ignoscere veniam petenti pulchrum. Nam indicium fiduciæ sui. Imitatio jucundum: revocat enim præterita. Præterita autem si bona fuerint, jucunda sunt repræsentata, quia bona; si mala, quia præterita. Jucunda igitur musica, poesis pictura.--Hobbes's "Opera Latina," Molesworth, vol. II. 98-102.] [Footnote 252: Metus potentiarum invisibilium, sive fictæ illæ sint, sive ab historiis acceptæ sint publiée, religio est si publice acceptæ non sint, superstitio.--Ibid. III. 45.] [Footnote 253: Omnis igitur societas vel commodi causa vel gloriæ, hoc est, sui, non sociorum amore contrahitur.--Ibid. II. 161. Statuendum igitur est, originem magnarum et diuturnarum societatum non a mutua hominum benevolentia, sed a mutuo metu exstitisse.--Ibid. II. 161. Voluntas lædendi omnibus quidem inest in statu naturae.--Ibid. II. 162. Status hominum naturalis antequam in societatem coiretur bellum fuerit; neque hoc simpliciter, sed bellum omnium in omftes.--Ibid. II. 166. Bellum sua natura sempiternum.--See 166, line 16.] [Footnote 254: Corpus et substantia idem significant, et proinde vox composita substantia incorporea est insignificans æque ac si quis diceret corpus incorporeum.--Hobbes's "Opera Latina," Molesworth, vol. III. 281. Quidquid imaginamur finitum est. Nulla ergo est idea neque conceptus qui oriri potest a voce hac, infinitum.--Ibid. III. 20. Recidit itaque ratiocinatio omnis ad duas operationes animi, additionem et substractionem.--Ibid. I. 3. Nomina signa sunt non rerum sed cogitationem.--Ibid. I. 15. Veritas enim in dicto non in re consists.--Ibid. I. 31. Sensio igitur in sentiente nihil aliud esse potest præter motum partium aliquarum intus in sentiente existentium, quæ partes motæ organorum quibus sentimus partes sunt.--Ibid. I. 317.] [Footnote 255: Pepys's Diary, II. September 29, 1662.] [Footnote 256: His "Wild Gallant" dates from 1662.] [Footnote 257: "We love to get our mistresses, and purr over them, as cats do over mice, and let them get a little way; and all the pleasure is to pat them back again.--Mock Astrologer," II. 1. Wildblood says to his mistress: "I am none of those unreasonable lovers that propose to themselves the loving to eternity. A month is commonly my stint." And Jacintha replies: "Or would not a fortnight serve our turn?"--Ibid. Frequently one would think Dryden was translating Hobbes, by the harshness of his jests.] [Footnote 258: "Love in a Nunnery," II. 3.] [Footnote 259: Ibid. III. 3.] [Footnote 260: "Spanish Friar," III. 3. And jumbled with the plot we keep meeting with political allusions. This is a mark of the time. Torrismond, to excuse himself from marrying the queen, says, "Power which in one age is tyranny is ripen'd in the next to true succession. She's in possession."--"Spanish Friar," IV. 2.]