“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
