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You had better take for business a man somewhat absurd, kada over-formal.

Those who want friends to whom to open their griefs, are annibals of their own hearts.

Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the people are of weak courage; for (as Virgil says) it never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.

Let states that aim at greatness, take heed how their nobility and gentry multiply too fast. In coppice woods, if you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes.

A ei war is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war i like the boat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in begith

Signiosoris among thoughts are like bats among birds, they by twilight.

Rase matures, if they find themselves once suspected, will

Wight to find the difference between saltness and Certainly he that hath a satirical vein, as he others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of

asvein in speech is more than eloquence.

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vdje harp will more men than ever they have

upine Aue roboree till he is dead, is (if a man calmerver Dasi of another man's than of

To probe, al' Av den more, it makes men

active; if it be stopped, it becomes adust, and makes meu melancholy.

To take a soldier without ambition, is to pull off his

spurs.

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. For no man will take such parts, except he be like the seel'd dove, that mounts and mounts, because he cannot see about him.

Princes and states should choose such ministers as are more sensible of duty than rising; and should discern a busy nature from a willing mind.

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

If a man look sharp and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, she is not invisible.'

Usury bringeth the treasure of the realm or state into & few hands for the usurer being at certainties, and the others at uncertainties; at the end of the game most of the money will be in the box.

Beauty is best in a body that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. The beautiful prove accomplished, but not of great spirit; and study, for the most part, rather behaviour than virtue.

The best part of beauty, is that which a picture cannot

express.

He who builds a fair house upon an ill seat, commits himself to prison.

If you would work on any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weaknesses and disadvantages, and so awe him; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.

Costly followers (among whom we may reckon those who are importunate in suits) are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he maketh his wings shorter.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

As Dilways subject to be like the

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rosperity & temperance, of adversity fortiW* * #wre termical virtue. Prospe42a Tasament, adversity the ka ta arreu de greater benediction

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Kier in mmi i puòce or sudden

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with the day. Am ch, and sus miles

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To desire in discourse to hold all arguments, is ridiculous, wanting true judgment; for in all things no man can be exquisite.

To have common-places to discourse, and to want variety, is both tedious to the hearers, and shows a shallowness of conceit; therefore it is good to vary, and suit speeches with the present occasions; and to have a moderation in all our speeches, especially in jesting, of religion, state, great persons, weighty and important business, poverty, or anything deserving pity.

To use many circumstances, ere you come to matter, is wearisome and to use none at all, is but blunt.

Bashfulness is a great hinderance to a man, both of uttering his conceit, and understanding what is propounded unto him; wherefore, it is good to press himself forwards with discretion, both in speech, and company of the better

sort.

Usus promptos facit.