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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	communicate_v	great_a	25	3	2.0729	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33174	Cicero's prince the reasons and counsels for settlement and good government of a kingdom, collected out of Cicero's works / by T. R., esq.; Selections. English	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Bellenden, William, d. 1633?; Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4320; ESTC R18500	30,642	98

a Person by whom your own or the safty of the State may be endangered for the obligation for another mans Inclinations or Judgment is more weighty and difficult then that of mony for that may be discharged and it is only a probable loss of an Estate but how can any man make good his obligation to you or the State unless the person for whom he stood bound will suffer himself to be secured Be always so careful of your self as not to be in the power of those whom you may suspect but they rather in yours Let your ears give a Value to Truth and not be open to whisperers and flatterers for advantage Gain gotten by calumny by reason of the mischiefs it brings upon the innocent is of all the most vile and worthy severest pu●ishment Those Pests of mankind who envy the glory and good of other men are of all to be abhorred and suppressed who very often alienate Princes from their best subjects and change their affection to the Prince These Agesilaus * Agesilaus was King of Lacedemon famous for his valour wisdom and modesty which vvas s●ch as he vvould not suffer any picture or statue to be made of his person saying that Princes ought to have no other Monum●nts but Memorials of their Virtues and good Actions hated more then Thieves for that he held it worse to be deprived of his friends then robbed of his goods It is therefore a felicity to a Prince when the truth is discovered and the suppressed defence of Innocence respires which is commonly done when those skilled in this base art will not so much dare openly to attempt as design and those of a more desperate Audacity are left to their own precipitate Counsels Credulity is rather an Error then a crime and may easily insinuate into the minds of the best men yet is it very dangerous in a State Therefore that your Government may not suffer by credulity adhere to this Maxim of Epicharmus The Nerves and Joints of Wisdom are Not to believe rashly and let it be your Elogie Not to be capable of being easily deceived or overcome CHAP. 15. Of the Princes Seal Senate Senators and Counsel LEt not your Seal be as your Instrument but as your self not the Minister of anothers will but as a witness of your own Let your Senate be like that of Areopagus * A place very famous in Athens by the Temple of Mars vvhere the Judges instituted by Solon sate in the night and vvere not to see the Persons that pleaded their causes before them but only heard the voices and gave judgment vvith exact severity Constant Severe Grave and Stout your Senator do all things which become a person of his condition and not only those things which are every particular mans duty viz. to be Faithful and Vigilant a Lover of his Country c. but when he gives his Opinion to be as one most eminent in the Commonwealth Prudent also For when I assumed my part in the Government of my Country I thought my self equally worthy of Reproof when I gave in the Senate unprofitable as when unfaithful Advice neither did I believe my self to be excused if when the Publick was to be defended I sought upon pretence of great Affairs my own quiet or resolved not to come into the Senate till better Times for no pretence of Rest or Fear ought to hinder your Duty or Fidelity to your Country Take Counsel of the most Faithful and Wise and confer on such Authority nor suffer them to be slighted if any shall presume to that insolence think your self to be Affronted in their injury and your Authority to be despised All things of this nature are to be suppressed as pernicious in their example and progress for this mischief groweth on by degrees of Custom and riseth to a sudden height by presumption and when the punishment is laid aside liberty takes place It will be of no little benefit to take those into your Cabinet whose Fidelity and Experience in Affairs you have known to excel others with whom you may freely communicate and examine all events of past and future Actions and according to their weight what is to be suspended what put in execution by these means you will have time to discern Truth from Falshood and consider what is best to be done and so publish nothing but what hath been maturely weighed and consulted by them to your great honor and advantage CHAP. 16. To avoid Flatterers MAke it your care never to let your Ears be open to Flatterers it was Pompey's error who though he saw all our dangers involved with his own adhered to the Counsels of certain inexperienced and imprudent men Do nothing that may create opinion that you hate Truth or will exercise your displeasure and malice on such as advise Honestly for this is poison to faithful Counsellors nourisheth and invites the wicked and perfidious gives temptation to obsequious Humor which indulging to error precipitates many into Ruine But the greatest Mischief to such as despise Truth and are drawn into snares by compliance is that they are most commonly apt to flatter themselves and most delighted with it Virtue indeed is a Lover of her self and as she is Amiable so she knows best and understands her self But I speak not here of Virtue but of the Opinion of Virtue for many men would rather seem Virtuous then be really endued with Virtue and these are pleased with Flattery and a speech composed to their inclinations makes them believe that vain Oratory to be a real testimony of their Worth this therefore is rather pernicious then dutiful when the one is neither willing to hear Truth nor the other prepared to speak it But this is certain when a Princes Ears are so shut up against Truth that they cannot hear it his ruine is hardly to be avoided CHAP. 17. Of preserving Authority and avoiding evil desires which diminish it LEt your deportment be constant and Grave which not only resists Flattery but removes the suspition For you are to imitate a wise Judge who avoids offence by the Equity of his Decrees and acquires the good will of all men by his patience in hearing and care to give just satisfaction Briefly be so circumspect both in your life and Government that there remain not the lest suspition of Sloth or Levity commit no Act may make you seem Timorous or Effeminate If any thing happen worthy of your Fear dissemble it use present courage and Counsel and quit not your Reason This was a Maxim frequently practised in our Republick most eminently in the second Punick War when after the misfortune at Cannae they assumed greater Courage then before that Victory of the enemy no signs of Fear no mention of Peace for it is dishonorable in a Prince to submit his Courage to any danger As in the steps of a Ladder if you take away some cut other and leave the rest ill put together you prepare