"The Book of My Life" [De Vita Propria Liber] by Jerome Cardan (Girolamo Cardano)

By Jerome Cardan (Girolamo Cardano)

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Ca:sar, Hannibal, and Alexander had this design, to advance to distinction their own names at the cost of their lives, and at the same time the sacrifice of their families, their followers, and even of their city or their state, making, in the meantime, the most of their own positions. Suppose, then, that in this manner they achieved fame. To what end? Sulla destroyed the institutions all his predecessors had labored to build; indeed, whatever was before his day, even things most admirable. All of his successors caused their families and their friends to perish.

PRUDENCE 43 Now I have ever attested my insignificant powers in or q>Q6Vl](jL~. If these terms signify merely pru~ dentia} it is, nevertheless, the same as if we should say humana prudentia} for nothing which we know, except man, possesses this good counsel. The deities have a greater gift-that is to say, direct knowledge or intuition, not a quality of other existing creatures. Intuitum is not an ex~ pression identical with the harpocratic quality, since it differs in character from foreknowledge in that it partakes of the nature of prudentia.

If insomnia troubles me, I get up, walk around the bed and count to a thousand many times. I also diet, cutting down on my food by more than half. At such times I make small use of medication beyond a little poplar ointment or bear's grease or oil of water lilies. With this I anoint seventeen places: the thighs, the soles of my feet, the cervix, the elbows, the wrists, the temples, the regions of the jugular, heart, and liver, and last of all my upper lip. ' I was especially troubled with early morning wakefulness.

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