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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.

Ben Jonson

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment

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