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Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
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Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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Irremoveable If either fail it is Wisdom rather to repair it than to remove it He that pulls down the Old to set up a New may draw the Roof upon his head and ruine the Foundation MAX. 46. It is a necessary Wisdom in a Prince to encourage in his Kingdoms Manufacture Merchandise Arts and Arms in Manufacture lies the Vital Spirits of the Body-Politique In Merchandise the Spirits Natural In Arts and Arms the Animal If either of these Languish the Body droops as these flourish the Body flourishes MAX. 47. True Religion is a Settler in a State rather than a Stickler while she confirms an Established Government she moves in her own Sphere but when she endeavours to alter the old or to erect a new she works out of her own Vineyard When she keeps the Keys she sends Showers of Milk But when she draws the Sword she fails in Seas of Blood Labour therefore to settle Religion in the Church and Religion shall settle Peace in thy Land MAX. 48. If thou entertain any Foreign Soldiers into thine Army let them bear thy Colours and receive thy pay lest they Interest their own Prince Auxiliary Soldiers are most dangerous A Foreign Prince needs no greater Invitation to seize upon thy City then when he is required to defend it MAX. 49. Be cautious in undertaking a design upon the report of those that are banish'd their Country lest thou come off with shame or loss or both Their end expects advantages from thy actions whose miseries lay hold of all opportunities and seek to be redrest by thy Ruines MAX. 50. If thou endeavourest to make a Republick in a Nation where the Gentry abound thou shalt hardly prosper in that Design and if thou would'st erect a Principality in a Land where there is much equality of People thou shalt not easily effect it The way to bring the first to pass is to weaken the Gentry The means to effect the last is to advance and strengthen ambitious and turbulent Spirits so that being placed in the midst of them their Forces may maintain thy Power and thy Favour may preserve their Ambition Otherwise there shall be neither Property nor continuance MAX. 51. It is more excellent for a Prince to have a provident Eye for the preventing future mischiefs than to have a potent Arm for the suppressing present Evils Mischiefs in a State are Like Hectick Feavers in a Body in the beginning hard to be known but easie to be cured But let it alone a while it becomes more easie to be known but more hard to be cured MAX. 52. If a Kingdom be apt to Rebellion it is Wisdom to preserve the Nobility and Commons at variance where one of them is discontented the Danger is not great The Commons are flow of motion if not quicken'd with the Nobility The Nobility is weak of Power if not strengthen'd by the Commons Then is Danger when the Commonalty troubles the Water and the Nobility steps in MAX. 53. It is very requisite for a Prince to have an Eye That the Clergy be elected and come in either by Collation from him or particular Patrons and not by the People and that their Power hold Dependance upon home and not foreign Authority It is dangerous in a Kingdom where the Crosiers receive not their Power from the Regal Sword MAX. 54. It is a perillous Weakness in a State to be slow of Resolution in the time of War To be irresolute in Determination is both the sign and the Ruine of a weak State Such Affairs attend not time Let the wise Statesman therefore abhor Dolay and resolve rather to do than advise what to say Slow Deliberations are Symptoms either of a faint Courage or weak Forces or false Hearts MAX. 55. If a Conqueror hath subdued a Country or a City abounding with Pleasures let him be very circumspect to keep himself and his Soldiers temperate Pleasures bring Effeminacy and Effeminacy foreruns Ruine Such Conquests without blood or sweat sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate Conquerors MAX. 56. It is an infallible sign of approaching Ruine in a Republick when Religion is neglected and her establisht Ceremonies interrupted Let therefore that Prince that would be Potent be Pious and that he may punish Loosness the better let him be Religious The Joy of Jerusalem depends upon the Peace of Sion MAX. 57. Let that Prince that desires full Sovereignty temper the Greatness of too potent a Nobility A great and potent Nobility quickens the People but presses their Fortunes It adds Majesty to a Monarch but diminishes his Power MAX. 58. It is dangerous for a Prince to use ambitious Natures but upon necessity either for his Wars or to be Skreens to his Dangers or Instruments for the demolishing insolent Greatness and that they may be the less dangerous let him choose them rather out of mean Births than noble and out of harsh Natures rather than plausible and always be sure to ballance them with those that are as proud as they MAX. 59. Let Princes be very circumspect in the choice of their Councellours choosing neither by the greatness of the Beard nor by the smoothness of the Face Let him be wise but not crafty active without private ends couragious without malice religious without faction secret without fraud One better read in his Prince's Business than his Nature and a Riddle only to be read above MAX. 60. In a mixt Monarchy if the Hierarchy grow too absolute it is Wisdom in a Prince rather to depress it than suppress it all Alterations in a Fundamental Government being apparent Dangers but too sudden Alteration threatens inevitable Ruine When Aaron made a molten Calf Moses alter'd not the Government but reproved the Governour MAX. 61. Before thou build a Fortress consider to what End If for Resistance against the Enemy it is useless a valiant Army is a living Fortress If for suppressing the Subject it is hurtful it breeds Jealousies and Jealousies beget Hatred If thou hast a strong Army to maintain it it adds nothing to thy Strength If thy Army be weak it conduces much to thy Danger The surest Fortress is the Hands of thy Soldiers and the safest Cittadel is the Hearts of thy Subjects MAX. 62. It is a Princely Alchymy out of a necessary War to extract an Honourable Peace and more beseeming the Majesty of a Prince to thirst after Peace than Conquest Blessedness is promised to the Peace-maker not the Conqueror It is an happy State whose Prince hath a Peaceful Hand and a Martial Heart able both to use Peace and to manage War MAX. 63. It is a dishonourable thing for a Prince to run in Debt for State-service but to pay it in the Pardon of a Criminal Offence is most dangerous To cancel the Faults of Subjects with their Deserts is not only the Symptom of a disorder'd Commonwealth but also of her Ruine MAX. 64. Let not a Commander be too forward to undertake a War without the Person of
his Prince It is a thankless Employment where Mischief attends upon the best Success And where if a Conqueror he shall be in danger either through his own Ambition or his Prince's Suspicion MAX. 65. It is a great Oversight in a Prince for any Respect either Actively or Passively to make a foreign Kingdom strong He that gives means to another to become powerful weakens himself and enables him to take the advantage of his own weakness MAX. 66. When the humours of the People are stirr'd by Discontents or popular Grief it is Wisdom in a Prince to give them moderate Liberty to evaporate He that turns the Humour back too hastily makes the Wound bleed inwardly and fills the Body with Malignity MAX. 67. If having levied an Army thou findest thy self too weak either thro' the Want of Men or Money the longer thou delayest to fight the greater thy Inconvenience grows If once thy Army falls asunder thou certainly losest by thy Delay Where hazarding thy Fortunes betimes thou hast the advantage of thy Men and mayst by Fortune win the Day it is less dishonour to be overcome by Force than by Flight MAX. 68. It is the part of a wise Commander in Wars either offensive or defensive to work a Necessity of Fighting into the Breasts of his Soldiers Necessity of Action takes away the Fear of the Act and makes bold Resolution the Favourite of Fortune MAX. 69. Clemency and Mildness is most proper for a Principality but Reservedness and Severity for a Republick but Moderation in both Excess in the one breeds Contempt in the other Hatred When to sharpen the first and when to sweeten the last let Time and Occasion direct thy Judgment MAX. 70. It is very requisite for a Prince that desires the Continuance of Peace in time of Peace to encourage and respect his Commanders When brave Spirits find Neglect to be the effect of Quiet they devise all means to remove the Cause and by suggesting Inducements to new Wars disturb and unsettle the old Peace buying private Honour with publick Danger MAX. 71. Be not covetous of Priority in Advising thy Prince to a doubtful Attempt which concerns his State If it prosper the Glory must be his if it fail the Dishonour will be thine When the Spirit of a Prince is stopped in the Discharge it will recoile wound the first Adviser MAX. 72. If being the Commander of an Army thou espiest a gross and manifest error in thine Enemy look well to thy self for Treachery is not far off He whom desire of Victory binds too much is apt to stumble at his own Ruine MAX. 73. It is the height of a Provident Commander not only to keep his own Designs indiscoverable to his Enemy but likewise to be studious to discover his He that can best do the one and nearest guess at the other is the next Step to a Conqueror but he that fails in both must either ascribe his Overthrow to his own Folly or his Victory to the hand of Fortune MAX. 74. If thou be ambitious of Honour and yet fearful of the Canker of Honour Envy so behave thy self that Opinion may be satisfied in this That thou seekest Merit and not Fame and that thou attributest thy Preferment rather to Providence than thy own Virtue Honour is a due Debt to the Deserver and who ever envied the Payment of a Debt A just Advancement is a Providential Act and who ever envied the Act of Providence MAX. 75. It behoves a Prince to be very circumspect before he makes a League which being made and then broke is the Forfeiture of his Honour He that obtains a Kingdom with the Rupture of his Faith hath gained the Glory of a Conquest but lost the Honour of a Conqueror MAX. 76. Let States that aim at Greatness beware lest new Gentry multiply too fast or grow too glorious Where there is too great a Disproportion betwixt the Gentry and the Common Subject the one grows insolent the other slavish When the Body of the Gentry grows too glorious for a Corslet the Heads of the Vulgar wax too heavy for the Helmet MAX. 77. Upon the Beleaguering of a City let the Commander endeavour to take from the Defendants all Scruples which may invite them to a Necessity of Defence Whom the Fear of Slavery necessitates to fight the boldness of their Resolution will disadvantage the Assailants and difficilitate their Design Sense of Necessity justifies the War and they are hopeful in their Arms who have no other Hope but in their Arms. MAX. 78. It is good for States and Princes if they use ambitious Men for their advantage so to order things that they be still Progressive rather than Retrograde When ambitious men find an open Passage they are rather busie than dangerous if well watch'd in their Proceedings they will catch themselves in their own Snare and prepare a Way for their own Destruction MAX. 79. Of all Recreations Hunting is most proper for a Commander by the frequency whereof he may be instructed in that necessary Knowledge of Situation with Pleasure which by earnest Experience would be dearly purchased The Chase is a fair Resemblance of a hopeful War proposing to the Pursuer a flying Enemy MAX. 80. Expect the Arms of thy Enemy on plain and easie ground and still avoid mountainous rocky places and strait Passages to the utmost of thy Power It is not safe to pitch any where where the Forces cannot be brought together He never deserved the Name of a good Gamester that hazards his whole Rest upon less than the strength of his whole Game MAX. 81. It matters not much whether in Government thou tread the Steps of severe Hanibal or gentle Scipio so thy Actions are Honourable and thy Life Virtuous Both in the one and the other there is both Defect and Danger if not corrected and supported by the fair Repute of some extraordinary Endowments No matter whether black or white so the Steed be good MAX. 82. It is the safest Way in martial Expedition to commit the main Charge to one Companions in Command beget Confusion in the Camp When two able Commanders are joyned in equal Commission each is apt to think his own way best and by mutual thwarting each other both give opportunity to the Enemy MAX. 83. It is a high Point of Providence in a Prince to observe Popular Sects in their first rise and to nip them in the bud But being once full aged it is Wisdom not to oppose them with too strong a hand lest in suppressing one there arise two A soft Current is soon stopt but a strong Stream resisted breaks into many or overwhelms all MAX. 84. It makes very much to thy advantage to observe strictly the National Virtues and Vices and humours of Foreign Kingdoms whereby the times past shall read useful Lectures to the time present He that would see what shall be let him consider what hath been MAX. 85. If like Manlius thou command