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More Quotes by William Penn
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
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.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
