Quote #13

Every single act either weakeneth or improveth our credit with other men; and as a habit of being just to our word will confirm, so a habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

More from George Savile

  1. Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
  2. He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
  3. A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.
  4. Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
  5. A princely mind will undo a private family.
  6. If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
  7. A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
  8. In this Age, when it is said of a man, 'He knows how to live,' it may be implied he is not very honest.

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