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An ELEATIC STRANGER, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bring a lively conversation, such as no one would have dared to carry on

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Secrecy in suits is a great mean of obtaining; for voicing them, to be in forwardness, may discourage some kind of suitors; but doth quicken and awake others. But timing of the suit is the principal. Timing, I say, not only in respect of the person that should grant it, but in respect of those which are like to cross it Let a man, in the choice of his mean, rather choose the fittest mean, man the greatest mean: and rather them, that deal in certain things, than those that are general. The reparation of a denial is sometimes equal to the first grant; if a man show himself neither dejected, nor discontented. Imqwsmpetas, utaeqwmferas; is a good rule, where a man haul strength of favour: but otherwise, a man were better rise in his suit; for he that would have ventured at first to have lost the suitor, will not in the conclusion lose both the suitor, and his own former favour. Nothing is thought so basic a request, to a great person, as his letter; and yet, if it be not in a good cause, it is so much out of his reputation. There are no worse instruments, than these general contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings.

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Chapter 23

then came another confectioner who hung a bell over his stall, which

Ath. Nearly all of them, my friends, seem to be ignorant of thenature and power of the soul, especially in what relates to herorigin: they do not know that she is among the first of things, andbefore all bodies, and is the chief author of their changes andtranspositions. And if this is true, and if the soul is older than thebody, must not the things which are of the soul's kindred be ofnecessity prior to those which appertain to the body?