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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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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.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.