Lesson 15 – Of Bringing up and Manners; of Dispositions and Instruction, from the Wisdom of the Sages.

Of Bringing up and Manners; of Dispositions and Instruction, from the Wisdom of the Sages.

1. A gentle heart, by its own accord, is given to goodness.
2. Noble wits, corrupted in the bringing up, prove more unhappy than others tat be more simple.
3. The wits which in Age will be excellent, may be known in Youth by their honest delights.
4. He is to be commended which, to his good bringing up joins Virtue, Wisdom, and Learning.
5. Instruction in a fool causes more folly.
6. Good dispositions can neither be given, bought, nor sold. Yea, if they might; no man would buy them! but the eil are daily bought and sold.
7. Manners are more requisite in a child, than playing upon instruments, or any other kind of vain pleasantness.
8. Those parents are to be blamed that are very careful to heap up riches; and take no care for the good bringing up of their children.
9. It becomes a man, from his youth, to be shamefast in filthy things; and to be studious in that which is honest.
10. Soberness in Youth seems to Fools to be mere foolishness.
11. Good bringing up makes a man well disposed.
12. He is perfect which, to his good bringing up joins other virtues.
13. Good bringing up is the head of good manners.
14. It is not possible for him to be sober, that is wealthily brought up in rioting and pleasures.