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In this way, we know the foundations and means of things that never were; and the world scuffles about a thousand questions, of which both the Pro and the Con are false. "Ita finitima sunt falsa veris, ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere." Truth and lies are faced alike; their port, taste, and proceedings are the same, and we look upon them with the same eye.
judging rightly enough of my own strength, that it was not capable of any great matters; and calling to mind the saying of the late Chancellor Olivier, that the French were like monkeys that swarm up a tree from branch to branch, and never stop till they come to the highest, and there shew their breech. "Turpe est, quod nequeas, capiti committere pondus, Et pressum inflexo mox dare terga genu."
And yet we make nothing of invoking God's assistance in our vices, and inviting Him into our unjust designs: "Quae, nisi seductis, nequeas committere divis"
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