excess;
every good
quality is
noxious if
unmixed,
and, to
carry the
danger to
the edge
of ruin,
nature
causes
each man’s
peculiarity
to
superabound.
Here,
among the
farms, we
adduce the
scholars
as
examples
of this
treachery.
They are
nature’s
victims of
expression.
You who
see the
artist,
the
orator,
the poet,
too near,
and find
their life
no more
excellent
than that
of
mechanics
or
farmers,
and
themselves
victims of
partiality,
very
