Notes to self —
Notes 3
Accordingtosome,
these bodies, which add dignity to the awkward appear ance of people, have also come to provide the superi ority which is a source of the most considerable satis faction, as I have already indicated.
even kings owe the greater part of the veneration of their sub jects to the external magnificence which always sur rounds them. Deprived of these trappings, kings would
retain only powers and gifts of mind which they had formerly; they have come to realize that the reverence
shown them has been greatly reduced in such circum stances.
Women constitute half of the humai race and exist .only, or in large part, solely for our propogation and breeding.
They do not have any oth( value and merit than the love they arouse in men.
because this attribute is almost entirely derived from beauty, women have no greater duty than to appear at tractive in the eyes of men.
How useful they ‘are as ornaments is attested to by common consensus.
Propagate and breeding
more useful” and “less
useful” are relative terms, and that they are measured
according to the different conditions of different peo ple* **”
there is nothing more useless than bread for one
who is sated.***
Davan- zati asserts, that:
an egg worth half a grain of gold would have kept Count Ugolino from starving
to death, even after ten days in his tower prison. All the gold in the world
would not have matched it in value.
dear and cheap are relative terms.
To just live is easy !!!***