Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest
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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.
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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