A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

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When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

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They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

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There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

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In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

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