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Pay No Heed To Those Who Tell You That They Have Relinquished Place And Power Of Their Own Accord, And From Their Love Of Quiet. For Almost Always They Have Been Brought To This Retirement By Their Insufficiency And Against Their Will.

To Relinquish A Present Good Through Apprehension Of A Future Evil Is In Most Instances Unwise ... From A Fear Which May Afterwards Turn Out Groundless, You Lost The Good That Lay Within Your Grasp.

Waste No Time With Revolutions That Do Not Remove The Causes Of Your Complaints But Simply Change The Faces Of Those In Charge.

Keep Your Eye Fixed Not So Much On What They [people] Ought In Reason To Do, As On What They Are Likely To Do Based On Their Disposition And Habits.

He Is Less Likely To Be Mistaken Who Looks Forward To A Change In The Affairs Of The World Than He Who Regards Them As Firm And Stable.