Everywhere Do I Percieve A Certain Conspiracy

On His Mounting The Scaffold To Be Beheaded: 'i Pray You, Master Lieutenant, See Me Safely Up, And For My Coming Down, Let Me Shift For Myself.' To The Executioner: 'pick Up Thy Spirits, Man, And Be Not Afraid To Do Thyne Office; My Neck Is Very Short; Take Heed, Therefore Thou Strike Not Awry, For Saving Of Thyne Honesty.'

They Wonder Much To Hear That Gold, Which In Itself Is So Useless A Thing, Should Be Everywhere So Much Esteemed, That Even Men For Whom It Was Made, And By Whom It Has Its Value, Should Yet Be Thought Of Less Value Than It Is.

Pride Thinks It's Own Happiness Shines The Brighter By Comparing It With The Misfortunes Of Others.

In The First Place, Most Princes Apply Themselves To The Arts Of War, In Which I Have Neither Ability Nor Interest, Instead Of To The Good Arts Of Peace. They Are Generally More Set On Acquiring New Kingdoms By Hook Or By Crook Than On Governing Well Those That They Already Have.

For If You Suffer Your People To Be Ill-educated, And Their Manners To Be Corrupted From Their Infancy, And Then Punish Them For Those Crimes To Which Their First Education Disposed Them, What Else Is To Be Concluded From This, But That You First Make Thieves And Then Punish Them.