such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were
receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations.
Dye it therefore and thoroughly soak it with the assiduity
of these cogitations. As for example. Wheresoever thou
mayest live, there it is in thy power to live well and happy.
But thou mayest live at the Court, there then also mayest thou
live well and happy. Again, that which everything is made for,
he is also made unto that, and cannot but naturally incline unto it.
That which anything doth naturally incline unto, therein is his end.
Wherein the end of everything doth consist, therein also
doth his good and benefit consist. Society therefore
is the proper good of a rational creature. For that we
are made for society, it hath long since been demonstrated.
Or can any man make any question of this, that whatsoever
is naturally worse and inferior, is ordinarily subordinated
to that which is better? and that those things that are best,
are made one for another? And those things that have souls,
are better than those that have none? and of those that have,
those best that have rational souls?