The Most Part Of All Princes Have

The Times Are Never So Bad But That A Good Man Can Make Shift To Live In Them.

For Men Use, If They Have An Evil Turn, To Write It In Marble; And Whoso Doth Us A Good Turn We Write It In Dust.

No More Like Together Than Is Chalke To Coles.

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.

By Reason Of Gifts And Bribes The Offices Be Given To Rich Men, Which Should Rather Have Been Executed By Wise Men.