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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
Let us see what love can do.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
