The same passage is also quoted by Bacon in Essay V., "On Adversity," and in the treatise _De Sap. Vet._, vol. x. p. 343., edit. Montagu. Again, p. 159.: "De partibus vitae quisque deliberat, de summa nemo." Page 152.,-- "Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris," &c., repeated in part in the "Essay on Death." This last passage is taken, with considerable verbal variations, from Epist. 77. Sec. 6. "Therefore Aristotle, when he thinks to tax Democritus, doth in truth commend him, where he saith, _If we shall indeed dispute, and not follow after similitudes_," &c. The passage referred to is in _Eth. Nic._, vi. 3.; but it contains no allusion to Democritus, who is not even named in the _Ethics_; and the word which Bacon renders _dispute_ ([Greek: akribologeisthai]) means _to speak with precision_. P. 163. "For as the ancient politiques in popular states were wont to compare the people to the sea, and the orators to the winds." The allusion is to a couplet of Solon: "[Greek: ex anemon de thalassa tarassetai? en de tis auten] [Greek: me kinei, panton esti dikaiotate.]" _Fragm._ i. 8., ed. Gaisford. And to a passage of Livy (xxviii. 27.): "Multitudo omnis, sicut natura maris, per se immobilis est, venti et aurae cient." Compare Babrius, fab. 71. P. 165. "Did not one of the Fathers, in great indignation, call poesy _vinum daemonum_?" The same citation recurs in Essay I., "On Truth:" "One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy _vinum daemonum_." Query, Who is the Father alluded to? Page 177., the sayings, "Faber quisque fortunae propriae" is cited; and again, p. 178., "Faber quisque fortunae suae." In Essay XL., "On Fortune," it is quoted, with the addition, "saith the poet." The words are to be found in Sallust, _Ad Caesar. de Rep. Ord._, ii. 1.: "Sed res docuit, id verum esse, quad in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum suae esse quemque fortunae." The Appius alluded to is Appius Claudius the Censor. Bacon proceeds to say: "This conceit or position [viz. 'Faber quisque,' &c.], if it be too much declared and professed, hath been thought a thing impolitic and unlucky, as was observed in Timotheus the Athenian, who, having done many great services to the estate in his government, and giving an account thereof to the people, as the manner was, did conclude every particular with this clause, 'And in this Fortune had no part.' And it came so to pass, that he never prospered in anything he took in hand afterwards."