Lawyers-a Profession It Is To Disguise Matters.

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.

The Utopians Feel That Slaughtering Our Fellow Creatures Gradually Destroys The Sense Of Compassion, Which Is The Finest Sentiment Of Which Our Human Nature Is Capable.

Because The Soul Has Such Deep Roots In Personal And Social Life And Its Values Run So Contrary To Modern Concerns, Caring For The Soul May Well Turn Out To Be A Radical Act, A Challenge To Accepted Norms.

The Chief Aim Of Their Constitution Is That, Whenever Public Needs Permit, All Citizens Should Be Free, So Far As Possible, To Withdraw Their Time And Energy From The Service Of The Body, And Devote Themselves To The Freedom And Culture Of The Mind. For That, They Think, Is The Real Happiness Of Life.

I Should Only Ever Tell The King What He Ought To Do, Not What He Could Do. For If The Lion Knows His Own Strength, No Man Could Control Him.