Quote #34

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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  1. A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
  2. Although they possess enough, and more than enough, still they yearn for more.
  3. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the …
  4. An evil life is a kind of death.
  5. A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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  8. At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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