leisure

prosperity

was never idle for Scipio Africanus: he said he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.

Recast in definition form from: “Cato, who was nearly of the same age with Publius Scipio, the first of the family that bore the name of Africanus, represents him as in the habit of saying that he was never less at leisure than when he was at leisure, or less alone than when he was alone”

needs a tamer: as horses that rear and prance from many battles go to professional tamers, so men at loose reins in prosperity should be brought to the ring of reason.

Recast in definition form from: “as it is common to give horses that, from having been often in battle, rear and prance dangerously, into the hands of professional tamers, that they may be ridden more easily, so men, when at loose reins in prosperity, and over self-confident, should be brought, as it were, to the ring of reason and instruction, that they may fully see …”

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