2011. How human passions are bent, so as not to be broken
What it is to bend, yet not break, human feelings, of which our very life consists, it is possible for everyone to learn from experience. Friends, or wives, when [their dear ones] become angry, take pains to calm them by various blandishments and concessions, until they are bent away from their anger. Everyone can corroborate this from common experience.
2011. HOW THE PASSIONS OF MEN ARE BENT SO THAT THEY MAY NOT BE BROKEN.
What it is to bend without breaking a man's affections, in which consists his life, everyone may know from experience, since friends and wives, when companions become incensed, study to appease them by various blandishments and compliances, until the enraged party is turned or bent from his passion, which anyone may confirm by a multiplied experience.
2011. Quomodo passiones hominum flectuntur, ut non frangantur
Quid flectere, non frangere hominis affectiones, in quibus ejus vita, cuivis potest esse notum ab experientia, nam amici seu uxores, cum [sui] irascuntur, student, eos mitigare, per varias blanditias et assensiones, usque dum flectitur ita ab iracundia, quod multiplici experientia confirmare quisque posset.