“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
