It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

It is as natural to die as to be born.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

It is the worst solitude, to have no true friendships.

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