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Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries.; Enchiridion
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Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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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 Stout and great things be like Manlius stout to Execute great commands It is a great blemish in Sovereignty when the Will roars and the Power whispers If thou canst not Execute as freely as thou Commandst Command no more than what thou mayst as freely Execute MAX. 86. If one Prince desire to obtain any thing of another let him if occasion will bear it give him no time to advise let him endeavour to make him see a necessity of sudden resolution and the danger either of denial or delay He that gives times to resolve gives leisure to deny and warning to prepare MAX. 87. Let not thine Army at the first Encounter be too prodigal in her assaults but husband her strength at a dead lift When the Enemy hath abated the fury of his first heat let him then feel thou hast reserved thy Forces for the last blow So shall the honour he hath gained by his Valour encrease the Glory of thy Victory Fore-Games when they prove are speediest but After-games if wisely plaid are surest MAX. 88. It is very requisite for a Prince to keep the Church always in proportion to the State If the Government of the one be Monarchical and the other Democratical they will agree like Metal joyned with Clay But for a while durable is that State where Aaron commands the People and where Moses commands Aaron but most happy in the continuance where God commands both MAX. 89. Let not the Covetousness of a Captain purloyn to his own own use or any way bereave his Soldiers of any profit due unto their service either in their means or spoils Such injuries being quickned by their daily Necessities are never forgot What Soldiers earn with the hazard of their Lives if not enjoyed prophesies an Overthrow in the next battle MAX. 90. If a Prince expect Virtuous Subjects let his Subjects have a Virtuous Prince and so shall he the better punish the Vices of his degenerate Subjects so shall they trulier prize Virtue and follow it being exemplified in their Prince MAX. 91. It is the property of a Wise Commander to cast an Eye rather upon Actions than upon Persons and rather to reward the Merits of Men than to read the Letters of Ladies He that for favour or reward prefers a worthless Soldier Betrays a Kingdom to advance a Traytor MAX. 92. Where order and fury are well acquainted the War prospers and Soldiers end no less Men than they begun Order is quickned by Fury and Fury is regulated by Order but where Order is wanting Fury runs her own way and being unthrift of its own strength failing in the first assault cravens and such beginning more than Men end less than Women MAX. 93. It is the quality of a wise Commander to make his Soldiers confident of his Wisdom and their own Strength If any danger be to conceal it if manifest to lessen it Let him possess his Army with the Justness of the War and a certainty of Victory A good Cause makes a stout Heart and a strong Arm. They that fear an Overthrow are half Conquered MAX. 94. It is requisite in a General to mingle Love with the severity of his Discipline They that cannot be induced to Fear for Love will never be inforced to Love for Fear Love opens the heart Fear shuts it that Encourages this Compels and Victory meets Encouragement but flees Compulsion MAX. 95. It is the part of a well-advised State never to entrust a weighty service unto whom a noted Injury or dishonour hath been done he can never be Zealous in performance of service the height of whose Expectation can rather recover a lost Name than gain a fresh Honour MAX. 96. Three ways there be to begin a repute and gain Dignities in a Common-wealth The first by the Virtue of glorious Parents which till thou degenerate too much may raise thee upon the wings of Opinion The second is by associating with those whose actions are known Eminent The third by acting some Exploit either Publick or Private which in thy hand hath proved Honourable The two first may miss being founded upon Opinion The last seldom fails being grounded upon Evidence MAX. 97. If thou art called to the Dignity of a Commander dignify thy place by thy Commands and that thou mayst be the more perfect in Commanding others practise upon thy self Remember that thou art a Servant to the Publick-weal and therefore forget all private respects either of Kâ—n or Friends Remember thou art a Champion for a Kingdom Forget therefore all private affections either of Love or Hate He that would do his Country right must not be too sensible of a Personal wrong MAX. 98. It is the part of a wise Commander to read Books not so much as Men nor Men so much as Nations He that can discern the Inclinations Conditions and Passions of a Kingdom gains his Prince a great advantage both in Peace and War MAX. 99. And you most high and mighty Princes of this Lower World who at this Intricate and various Game of War vye Kingdoms and win Crowns and by the death of your reverend Subjects gain the Lives of your bold hearted Enemies Know there is a Quo Quarranto whereto you are to give