Nature brooks not the union of contraries.
So, seeing there is no doubt that wicked wretches are oftentimes set in high places, it is also clear that things which suffer association with the worst of men cannot be good in their own nature.

Indeed, this judgment may with some reason be passed concerning all the gifts of fortune which fall so plentifully to all the most wicked.

This ought also to be considered here, I think: No one doubts a man to be brave in whom he has observed a brave spirit residing.

It is plain that one who is endowed with speed is swift-footed.

So also music makes men musical, the healing art physicians, rhetoric public speakers.