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• Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
• The place of justice is a hallowed place.
• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
• God's first creature, which was light.
• People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
• It is natural to die as to be born.
• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

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