Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various

Don't Give Your Advice Before You Are Called Upon.

It Is Wisdom In Prosperity, When All Is As Thou Wouldn't Have It, To Fear And Suspect The Worst.

It Is The Chiefest Point Of Happiness That A Man Is Willing To Be What He Is.

Amongst The Learned The Lawyers Claim First Place, The Most Self-satisfied Class Of People, As They Roll Their Rock Of Sisyphus And String Together Six Hundred Laws In The Same Breath, No Matter Whether Relevant Or Not, Piling Up Opinion On Opinion And Gloss On Gloss To Make Their Profession Seem The Most Difficult Of All. Anything Which Causes Trouble Has Special Merit In Their Eyes.

A Good Prince Will Tax As Lightly As Possible Those Commodities Which Are Used By The Poorest Members Of Society: Grain, Bread, Beer, Wine, Clothing, And All Other Staples Without Which Human Life Could Not Exist.