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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30612	Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac's masterpiece being a discourse concerning the court : with an exact table of the principall matter / Englished by R.W.; Aristippe. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; R. W.	1659 (1659)	Wing B612; ESTC R7761	82,994	192

he thought he was obliged in Conscience to follow the intentions of the greatest and wisest Prince in the world nor did he apprehend he could err by conforming himself to the sentiments of him who never committed faults But I pray go on to verifie that secret command which is yet come to the knowledge of no man nor even to the Queen Dowager of the late King To know of a truth of this the charms of Magick must be imployed the soul of the greatest and wisest Prince of the the Earth must be raised of him who committed no faults and it must be enquired whether that Minister who alleadgeth this alleadge it not falsely It 's a raillery to think still to belong to Philip under the reign of Alexander to endeavor to perswade ones Master that a man hath reason to disobey That opiniastrecy hath merit That it 's sufficient to serve well howsoever though against the will of him we serve Let such persons who thus will serve their own way be always if it be possible two hundred leagues from Court Let them be employed if it may be so in obscure places where ill examples being not so much looked upon are not so dangerous But it would not be well to call them near the persons of a Prince where respect is no less necessary then service and where they would be his Tutors rather then his Counsellors These are excellent men I do not deny it but this excellency under the power of another is not in its right place They love the State and their Country but they hate Dependence and Subjection their end is right but the means are oblique and seem contrary to their end For making the good of the Monarchy their object they use all the licence which may be used in a popular Government Further yet In serving they will serve like Soveraigns themselves have told me in their entertainments of near four hours That they were too old to submit themselves to the first elements of their duty When smiling at what they told me I went farther and told them They were too great to learn that lesson which a Doctor of the Court gave his Son in the Grecian history MY CHILDE MAKE THY SELF LITTLE Good Governors of Provinces and good Guardians of the Frontier good Porters of the Realm so long as you please But I grant not that you are good Ministers of State and good Courtiers after the same manner There are Affairs in which a man may take several parties and some diversly byassed which offer themselves of which we are to chuse that which is most proper to manage it well In such businesses they bring the same passion and are born away with the same miscarriages which we have already observed on the subject of News A man can never see them out of one extremity or other They would rather fall then descend they desire all or nothing they seek Death or Victory Yet methinks it 's much to carry away three quarters when one cannot obtain the whole That betwixt Death and Victory there should be Peace which is a good of an inestimable value which ought to be sought for by the Vanquished and desired by the Victorious But what is seemly with us nothing perswades them nor have they an ear for our remonstrances there is no way to divert their imagination from its object and to make them change their aim they are enemies to all accommodation and so bound to those rules which they prescribe themselves and to that rigor of exact Justice which exasperates them that it 's impossible to render them capable of Equity It 's not possible to make them take a reward for a thing when it 's lost They would have the same and not the like They combate the sence of the Law with terms of Law and injure themselves by doing themselves right They make me remember those Brothers so much celebrated in History who being equally to divide a Succession broke a glass to divide it cut a Suit in two that each of them might have his half If these go not so far and if this be to speak too much Let 's at least say that in business they know not of how great use these temperaments are and how profitably be employed for the perfection of Affairs by joyning things at a distance and by facilitating those which are difficult They understand not these Relaxations these Adjustments as they speak now in Italy This necessary mean which seems often to come from Heaven and which is needful to conclude bargains with particular persons and with far more reason Treaties of Peace betwixt Princes Leagues Offensive and Defensive Negotiations wherein the safety of People are concerned and the fortune of Kingdoms Our sullen vertuous persons will not admit of these Tempers nor of this Mean In a State which dies of old age they would do the same as if they governed in a newly established Commonwealth in the purity of its institution and in the vigor of its first Orders They speak of nothing but of an absolute Power but of the Autority of the Senate but of the force of the Laws although they are things which grow old as well as other things and which growing old grow weak Hearken unto Cato's opinion in Caesars cause He says we must load him with chains he doth not say we must first seise upon him we must send him in that condition to our Alleys whom he hath offended that they may do themselves right and that he may be punished for his unjust Victories These MUSTS are very difficult to be put in execution if Favor over-power Reason we must continues he have him come and plead his own cause in person and give us an account of his nine years Command All must be done according to Law that 's to say according to my intrpretation we must hazard all the Laws to observe Formalities I perswade my self Your Highness thinks this austere Commonwealths man to blame although never man was more praised then he Cicero was not only his particular friend he was his publick Admirer after his death he did somewhat more then make his Funeral Oration and what he did made way for Caesars two Anti Cato's Yet Cicero speaking confidently to Pomponius Atticus confesseth that the vertue of that man whom he so much admired was unprofitable for his Country He confesseth that that Divine man for so he called him was out of use and knew not how to accommodate himself to the condition of those times That when he gave his opinion in Council He thought he had been in Plato's Republick and not among the Lees of Romulus his People This word of Cicero explains a Verse of Virgil which your Scholasticks take no notice of yet it deserves the reflections of a Courtier In the description of his Hero's Buckler wherein divers figures were engraven when he would have represented that part of Hell which is inhabited by sacred Souls he makes Cato to

preferred to the timerous 92 93. This boldness and rudeness have in some encounters been approved and sometimes succeeded 93 94. Those who are naturally so hardly correspond with an enemy but they easily go back against their Master 94. They are not fit to be near a Princes person their imployment is better at a distance 95 96. They love the state and their Country but hate dependance and subjection 96. They are good Governors of Provinces and good Guardians of a Frontier but they cannot be good Ministers of State or good Courtiers ibid. In business wherein they may chuse their side and wherein of many who offer themselves the fittest to manage them ought to be chosen they are commonly in one extreme or other 96 97. They are Enemies of all accommodation and are not acquainted with those tempers or adjustments which are so profitably used for the perfection of business 97 98. In a State which dyes of old age they would the same thing as if they governed a Republick newly established 98 99. Like Cato give sentence against Caesar 99. Such Maxims as to govern well they ought to learn 101. A man must not be too severe nor too ridged but must sometimes accommodate himself to times and seasons ibid. It 's unnecessary to make punctilio's on words and forms Great persons to blame upon that occasion 103 104. It 's better not to have so good and penetrating a sight in the discussion of Rights least we discover but too much Justice 106 107. There are some who to appear vertuous and incorrupted in Office rendred themselves ridiculous by an extravagant Probity 108. There are some who for fear of favoring any man disapprove blame and condemn all the world and most commonly without knowing why 109 110. Such men are not to be called to the counsels of Kings 110 111 Prudence A man may be imprudent with the consent of Prudence 60 R. REason Even the right and that which is most clear wanders often and the most able and the most intelligent men are subjects of deceit 51 Remedies though filthy are still remedies 102 Royalty is ●not compatible with subjection 138 S. SEcr●sie A singular example of a kept secret 146 Society Men can neither live well nor be men nor be happy the one without the other 2. Societies advantage above Solitude ibid. Solitude God onely enjoys a most happy solitude ibid. Stilicon unhappily ended his life having been too ambitious for his children 11 156 Subtilty Of those who entertain so vast and extended an intelligence who reason with excess 35. They are like extractors of essences ibid. It 's an error to think that wisdom cannot be couragious that it ought always to fear and tremble 70. Danger is to be invoked to the relief of danger and we must get out of one evil through another 70 71. The ill conduct of wise Ministers when some ill business happens some trouble or some rebellion in the State 71 72. They are often also friends to strangers and apprebend more to displease a neighbour King then to disserve the King their Master 74 75. If a sensible injury which cannot be dissembled oblige the State to a publick resentment they do not blame the thing in its principle but in its consequences and effects 75. They are like the Ministers of Carthage who never comforted themselves with Hannibals Victories in Italy 76. Such Ministers were the cause of the loss of two Empires they lost both Rome and Constantinople ibid. They would neither sell nor deliver up their Master but neither are they angry the world knows it 's in their power 77. They keep even sometimes intelligence with the Ministers of other Princes although it be even in open war 77 78. In particular affairs they only give good answers in general without precisely ever obliging any and thus they can tire out the pateince of Solicitors and often reduce them to despair 78 79. Nothing can be imagined more sweet or more quiet then their malice they strike as they say without lifting up the arm 80 81 Women the insolency of those who possess a powerful Favorite or Minister of State and how unhappy it renders a State 131 132. They are the Hereticks of State 35. There are speculatives in all Nations which afford more liberty then is fit to conjecture and suspition 36. Strange and ridiculous Visions produce in them a false subtilty,37 They presume too advantagiously of a man who often proves less then mean who possesseth but a quarter or one half of the reasonable part 39. Great Events are not always produced by great Causes Vide Events Evil Subtilty is the cause things are not effected 44. It 's not necessary for a Minister of State to have so much subtilty 35 44. A great mind alone is a great instrumentt to commit faults 48 Sobriety of knowledge and of knowing is a good thing 48 49. T. TImerousness is dangerous and prejudicial to a Minister of State or to a Favorite 144. 145 Timero●s persons are placed in the number of Poysoners and Assassins how that 's to be understood 65. They are the last and worst of all ●●wards ibid. A wiseman ought to expect without astonishment till ill fortune be come 67 Treaty It were expedient to quit somewhat our own reason and Honor rather then not to make a good and honest accommodation 106 Tyrants how they by degrees make and form themselves 117 118 W. WArs The quarrels of Valors often sets the world on fire and not their Masters interests 40. The war of the King of Persia against Greece was onely undertaken to bring home a Muontebank 41. Weakness of mind is a subject of consolation for our poor humanity to see that something of the man was in their Hero's 107.108 A Woman despised by a King obligeth her Husband to revolt for to revenge herself he being ignorant of what moved him thereunto 41 42 Wisdom the refutation of what some Philosophers say that a wise man needs no body and what is separate from him is to no puppose 1 2. Court-Wise men counsel themselves instead of counselling their Master 62 63. A wise man cannot warraut success but is to be responsible for his intentions and for his Advice 66 Our Prudent Polititians should imitate the courage and magnanimity of Cicero 67. Timerousness so possesseth their minds that they despair before they ought to be afraid 68. They regulate their deliberations as if all doubtfull actions must needs happen and commonly act not at all because they would act securely 68 69 They ought to consider that all that ill which might happen happen not always ibid. They do not always sound the bottom of things and seldom bring them to the last point 69. Their Wisdom is precipitate as soon as out of their souls and never comes to action 69 70. FINIS