The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's ...intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were..., the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For youth is a frail thing, not unafraid. Firstly inclined to take what it is told.... Firstly inclined to lean. Greedy to give Faith tidy and total. To a total God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king--and of a King of England too, and thin...k foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which, rather than any dishonour should grow by me, I myself will take up arms--I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My loving people,--We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed mu...ltitudes for fear of treachery; but, I do assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far,... We may take something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort?... Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?... I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »