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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
A princely mind will undo a private family.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
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.
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.