Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.Francis Bacon
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers zeros, is the decay of the whole age.
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