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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The following MAXIMS were found among&s;t the Papers of the Great <HI>Almanzor;</HI> and tho they mu&s;t lo&s;e a good deal of their Original Spirit by the Tran&s;lation, yet they &s;eem to be &s;o Applicable to all Times, that it is thought no Di&s;&s;ervice to make them Publick.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>I. THAT a Prince who falleth out with his Laws, breaketh with his Be&s;t Friends.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. That his Exalting his own Authority above his Laws, is like his letting in an Enemy to &s;urprize his Guards. The Laws are the only Guards he can be &s;ure will never run away from him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. A Prince that will &s;ay, He can do no good, except he may do every thing; teacheth his People to &s;ay, They are Slaves if they may not do what they have a mind to.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. That Power and Liberty are like Heat and Moi&s;ture; where they are mixt, every thing pro&s;pers; where they are &s;ingle, they are de&s;tructive.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. That Arbitrary Power is like mo&s;t other things that are very hard, they are al&s;o very apt to break.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. That the Profit of Places &s;hould be mea&s;ured, as are more or le&s;s conducing to the Publick Service; and if Bu&s;ine&s;s is more nece&s;&s;a|ry than Splendor, the In&s;truments of it ought in proportion to be bet|ter paid: That the contrary method is as impertinent, as it would be to let the Carving of a Ship co&s;t more than all the re&s;t of it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VII. That where the lea&s;t u&s;eful part of the People, have the mo&s;t Credit with the Prince, men will conclude, That the way to get eve|ry thing, is to be good for nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VIII. That an extravagant Gift to any one man, rai&s;eth the Mar|ket to every body el&s;e; &s;o that in con&s;equence, The Unlimited Bounty of an Unthinking Prince, maketh him a Beggar, let him have never &s;o much Money.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IX. That if ordinary Beggars are whipp'd, the daily Beggars in fine Cloaths, out of a proportionable re&s;pect to their Quality, ought to be hanged.</ITEM>
<ITEM>X. That Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more Sawcy.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XI. That a Prince who will give more to Importunity, than to Merit, had as good &s;et out a Proclamation to all his loving Subjects, forbidding them to &s;erve well, upon peril of being undone by it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XII. That a Wi&s;e Prince will not oblige his Courtiers, who are Birds of Prey, &s;o as to di&s;oblige his People, who are Bea&s;ts of Burthen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XIII. That it is &s;afer for a Prince to Judge of men by what they do to one another, than by what they do to him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XIV. That it is a gro&s;s mi&s;take, That a Knave betwixt man and man, can be hone&s;t to a King, whom of all others men generally make the lea&s;t &s;cruple to deceive.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XV. That a Prince who can ever tru&s;t the man that hath once de|ceived him, lo&s;eth the Right of being faithfully dealt with by any body el&s;e.</ITEM>
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XVI. That it's not po&s;&s;ible to find out &s;uch an hone&s;t Knave, as will let no body el&s;e Cheat him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XVII. That if a Prince doth not &s;hew an Aver&s;ion to Knaves, there will be Inference that will be Natural, let it be never &s;o Unmanerly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XVIII. That a Prince who formeth his Opinion too &s;oon, will be in danger of repenting it too late.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XIX. That it is le&s;s dangerous for a Prince to mind too much what the People &s;ay, than too little.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XX. That a Prince is to take care, the greater part of the People may not be angry at the &s;ame time; for tho the fir&s;t beginnings of their Ill Humours &s;hould be again&s;t one another, yet if not &s;topped, it will naturally end in Anger again&s;t him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXI. That if Princes would reflect how much they are in the Power of their Mini&s;ters, they would be more circum&s;pect in the Choice of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXII. That a Wi&s;e Prince will &s;upport Good Servants again&s;t mens Anger, and not &s;upport Ill ones again&s;t their Complaints.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXIII. That Parties in a State generally, like Free-booters, hang out fal&s;e Colours; the pretence is, The Publick Good; the real bu&s;i|ne&s;s is, To catch Prizes; like <HI>Tartars,</HI> whenever they &s;ucceed, in&s;tead of improving their Victory, they forceably fall upon the Baggage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXIV. That a Prince may play &s;o long between two Parties, that they may in time join together to be in earne&s;t with him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXV. That there is more dignity in open Violence, than in the Unskilful Cunning of a Prince, who goes about to impo&s;e upon the People.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXVI. That the People will ever &s;u&s;pect the Remedies for the Di&s;ea&s;es of the State, where they are wholly excluded from &s;eeing how they are prepared.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXVII. That changing Hands without changing Mea&s;ures, is as if a Drunkard in a Drop&s;y &s;hould change his Doctor, and not his Diet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXVIII. A Prince is to watch that his Rea&s;on may not be &s;ubdued to his Nature; &s;o as not to be &s;o much a Man of Peace as to be a Je&s;t in an Army, nor &s;o much a Man of War, as to be out of his Element in the Council.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXIX. That a man who cannot mind his own bu&s;ine&s;s, is never to be tru&s;ted with the King's</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXX. That Quality alone &s;hould only &s;eem to make a &s;hew in the Embroider'd Part of the Government; but that Ignorance, tho never &s;o well born, &s;hould never be admitted to &s;poil the Publick Bu&s;ine&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXXI. That he who thinketh his Place below him, will mind it &s;o little, that he will certainly be below his Place.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXXII. That when the Prince's Example cea&s;eth to have the Force of a Law, it is a &s;ure &s;ign that his Power is wa&s;ting, and there will be but little difference between mens neglecting to Imitate, and their refu&s;ing to Obey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XXXIII. That a People may let a King fall, and yet &s;till remain a People, but if a King lets his People &s;lip from him, he is no more a King.</ITEM>
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<P>Printed in the Year MDCXCIII.</P>
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