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Believing That I Was Born For The Service Of Mankind, And Regarding The Care Of The Commonwealth As A Kind Of Common Property Which, Like The Air And The Water, Belongs To Everybody, I Set Myself To Consider In What Way Mankind Might Be Best Served, And What Service I Was Myself Best Fitted By Nature To Perform.

There Arises From A Bad And Unapt Formation Of Words A Wonderful Obstruction To The Mind.

Nothing Doth More Hurt In A State Than That Cunning Men Pass For Wise.

There Is No Secrecy Comparable To Celerity.

Pyrrhus, When His Friends Congratulated To Him His Victory Over The Romans Under Fabricius, But With Great Slaughter Of His Own Side, Said To Them, "yes; But If We Have Such Another Victory, We Are Undone."