. . . The State

There Are Dreadful Punishments Enacted Against Thieves, But It Were Much Better To Make Such Good Provisions By Which Every Man Might Be Put In A Method How To Live, And So Be Preserved From The Fatal Necessity Of Stealing And Of Dying For It.

It Is Naturally Given To All Men To Esteem Their Own Inventions Best.

And It Will Fall Out As In A Complication Of Diseases, That By Applying A Remedy To One Sore, You Will Provoke Another; And That Which Removes The One Ill Symptom Produces Others.

If The Lion Knew His Own Strength, Hard Were It For Any Man To Rule Him.

In The First Place, Most Princes Apply Themselves To The Arts Of War, In Which I Have Neither Ability Nor Interest, Instead Of To The Good Arts Of Peace. They Are Generally More Set On Acquiring New Kingdoms By Hook Or By Crook Than On Governing Well Those That They Already Have.