When bread is baked some parts split here and there, but the parts that thus open, while contrary to the baker's art, are in a certain sense very fine and above all they whet the appetite wonderfully.
In the same way, ripe figs also split open.
Consider olives when they are fully ripe: it is precisely that almost rotten look that lends a particular beauty to the fruit.
Things like ears of corn bent towards the ground, the proud looks of the lion, the slobber running from the jaws of wild boars, and countless other examples, considered separately, are far from beauty. But because they follow nature's order they help to adorn that order and