The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
Book iii. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty.
Like rowers, who advance backward.[777:6]
Book iii. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.
Book iii. Chap ii. Of Repentance.
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Few men have been admired by their own domestics.[778:1]
Book iii. Chap. ii. Of Repentance.
It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.[778:2]