NATURE HAS GIVEN SUCH POWER OF UNDERSTANDING TO ANIMALS THAT IN ADDITION TO THE PERCEPTION OF WHAT IS TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE THEY KNOW WHAT IS TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF THE ENEMY.
LOVE OF VIRTUDE
The lark is a bird f which it is told that if it is taken inton the presece of anyone who is ill, then if the sick person is going to die the bird turns away its head and does not look at him. But if the sick person is going to recover, the bird never takes its eyes off him, and is the cause of all his sickness leavig him. Similarly the love of virtue never regards a mean or bad thing, but always rather dwells among things honest and virtuous, and r