item: #1 of 59
          id: chapter_001-truth
      author: None
       title: chapter_001-truth
        date: None
       words: 853
      flesch: 67
     summary: What is truth? Pilate would not stay for an answer. It is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts. Truth is a naked, open day-light, that doth not show masks, mummeries, and triumphs of the world.
    keywords: lie; truth
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        item: #2 of 59
          id: chapter_002-death
      author: None
       title: chapter_002-death
        date: None
       words: 573
      flesch: 71
     summary: Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark. The contemplation of death as the wages of sin is holy and religious, but the fear of it as a tribute to nature is weak. Many times death passes with less pain than the torture of a limb.
    keywords: death; fear; man
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        item: #3 of 59
          id: chapter_003-unity_in_religion
      author: None
       title: chapter_003-unity_in_religion
        date: None
       words: 1526
      flesch: 66
     summary: Heresies, schisms and heresies are the greatest scandals, because they keep people out of the church and drive them out. The true God is a jealous God, and his worship and religion will endure no mixture, nor partner.
    keywords: church; men; religion
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        item: #4 of 59
          id: chapter_004-revenge
      author: None
       title: chapter_004-revenge
        date: None
       words: 462
      flesch: 81
     summary: Revenge is a kind of wild justice. The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs for which there is no law to punish. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends.
    keywords: man
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        item: #5 of 59
          id: chapter_005-adversity
      author: None
       title: chapter_005-adversity
        date: None
       words: 392
      flesch: 65
     summary: Seneca said that the good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished for, but the good ones that belong in adversity are admired. The virtue of prosperity is temperance and the virtue of adversity is fortitude. The ancient poets have been busy with this subject matter.
    keywords: adversity
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        item: #6 of 59
          id: chapter_006-simulation_and_dissimulation
      author: None
       title: chapter_006-simulation_and_dissimulation
        date: None
       words: 1120
      flesch: 70
     summary: Dissimulation is the weaker sort of politics. Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband and dissimulation of her son. Mucianus encouraged Vespasian to take arms against Vitellius.
    keywords: dissimulation; man
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        item: #7 of 59
          id: chapter_007-parents_and_children
      author: None
       title: chapter_007-parents_and_children
        date: None
       words: 480
      flesch: 67
     summary: The difference in affection between parents and their children is unequal, especially in mothers. The Italians make no difference between children and their relatives. Men should keep their authority towards the children, but not their purse, as it is best for them.
    keywords: children
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        item: #8 of 59
          id: chapter_008-marriage_and_single_life
      author: None
       title: chapter_008-marriage_and_single_life
        date: None
       words: 585
      flesch: 71
     summary: He that has a wife and children gives hostages to fortune. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters and best servants, but not always best subjects. Single men are more cruel and hardhearted, because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
    keywords: men
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        item: #9 of 59
          id: chapter_009-envy
      author: None
       title: chapter_009-envy
        date: None
       words: 1704
      flesch: 71
     summary: A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. A man that has no virtue in himself, envies virtue in others.
    keywords: envy; men; persons
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        item: #10 of 59
          id: chapter_010-love
      author: None
       title: chapter_010-love
        date: None
       words: 629
      flesch: 65
     summary: Love is the most powerful emotion in the life of man. Epicurus says it is impossible to love and to be wise. Appius Claudius was a voluptuous man and Marcus Antonius was an austere and wise man, but they were lovers.
    keywords: love
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        item: #11 of 59
          id: chapter_011-great_place
      author: None
       title: chapter_011-great_place
        date: None
       words: 1162
      flesch: 73
     summary: Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. They have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions. They are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness.
    keywords: man; men; place
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        item: #12 of 59
          id: chapter_012-boldness
      author: None
       title: chapter_012-boldness
        date: None
       words: 610
      flesch: 77
     summary: In Demosthenes, the chief part of an orator is action. Boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts, but fascinates people. It has done wonders in popular states, but with senates, and princes less, than soon after.
    keywords: boldness
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        item: #13 of 59
          id: chapter_013-goodness_goodness_nature
      author: None
       title: chapter_013-goodness_goodness_nature
        date: None
       words: 858
      flesch: 68
     summary: Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error. The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. The Italians have an ungracious proverb, Tanto buon che val niente: so good that he is good for nothing.
    keywords: goodness; men
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        item: #14 of 59
          id: chapter_014-nobility
      author: None
       title: chapter_014-nobility
        date: None
       words: 492
      flesch: 66
     summary: A monarchy without nobility is pure and absolute tyranny. For democracies, where there is no nobility, people's eyes are on the business, and not on the persons. A great and potent nobility adds majesty to a monarch, but diminisheth power. Many of the nobility fall, in time, to be weak in fortune.
    keywords: nobility
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        item: #15 of 59
          id: chapter_015-seditions_and_troubles
      author: None
       title: chapter_015-seditions_and_troubles
        date: None
       words: 2258
      flesch: 62
     summary: Libels and licentious discourses against the state are among the signs of troubles. Virgil gives the pedigree of Fame as sister to the Giants. The best actions of a state are taken in ill sense and traduced, as Tacitus saith.
    keywords: discontentments; people; seditions; state; things; troubles
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        item: #16 of 59
          id: chapter_016-atheism
      author: None
       title: chapter_016-atheism
        date: None
       words: 931
      flesch: 65
     summary: Atheism is in the lip, rather than in the heart of man. Epicurus, Leucippus, Democritus and Epicurus were atheists. They believed in four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence.
    keywords: atheism; god; man
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        item: #17 of 59
          id: chapter_017-superstition
      author: None
       title: chapter_017-superstition
        date: None
       words: 497
      flesch: 53
     summary: It's better to have no opinion of God than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. The causes of superstition are pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies, excess of outward and pharisaical holiness, reverence of traditions, and the stratagems of prelates.
    keywords: superstition
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        item: #18 of 59
          id: chapter_018-travel
      author: None
       title: chapter_018-travel
        date: None
       words: 776
      flesch: 64
     summary: Travel is a part of education, in the younger sort, and in the elder. It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen, men should make diaries, but in land-travel, where so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it. Let diaries be brought in use.
    keywords: country; travel
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        item: #19 of 59
          id: chapter_019-empire
      author: None
       title: chapter_019-empire
        date: None
       words: 1578
      flesch: 62
     summary: The mind of man is more cheered and refreshed by profiting in small things than by standing at a stay. The true temper of empire is rare and hard to keep. Apollonius answered Vespasian's question about the cause of Nero's overthrow.
    keywords: danger; king; princes; second
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        item: #20 of 59
          id: chapter_020-counsel
      author: None
       title: chapter_020-counsel
        date: None
       words: 1524
      flesch: 62
     summary: The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. God made it one of the great names of his blessed Son: The Counsellor. The wisest princes needn't think it diminution to their greatness, or derogation to their sufficiency, to rely upon counsel.
    keywords: counsel; counsellors; princes
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        item: #21 of 59
          id: chapter_021-delays
      author: None
       title: chapter_021-delays
        date: None
       words: 324
      flesch: 71
     summary: Fortune is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. It is better to meet some dangers half way than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches. The ripeness, or unripeness of the occasion must be well weighed.
    keywords: dangers
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        item: #22 of 59
          id: chapter_022-cunning
      author: None
       title: chapter_022-cunning
        date: None
       words: 1289
      flesch: 67
     summary: There is a difference between a cunning man and a wise man. It is a point of cunning to wait upon the person with whom you speak with your eye, as the Jesuits give it in precept. When you have something to obtain, entertain and amuse the party with which you deal, so that he is not too awake to make objections.
    keywords: cunning; man
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        item: #23 of 59
          id: chapter_023-wisdom_for_a_mans_self
      author: None
       title: chapter_023-wisdom_for_a_mans_self
        date: None
       words: 528
      flesch: 74
     summary: Wisdom for a man's self is more tolerable in a sovereign prince than in a servant to a prince or a citizen in a republic. Self-love is a poor centre of the actions of a man. A servant's good should be preferred before the master's.
    keywords: wisdom
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        item: #24 of 59
          id: chapter_024-innovations
      author: None
       title: chapter_024-innovations
        date: None
       words: 402
      flesch: 62
     summary: Time is the greatest innovator. New things are like strangers, more admired, and less favored than old things. It is good not to try experiments in states unless the necessity is evident. The reformation draws on the change, and not the desire of change.
    keywords: time
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        item: #25 of 59
          id: chapter_025-dispatch
      author: None
       title: chapter_025-dispatch
        date: None
       words: 601
      flesch: 70
     summary: Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business. True dispatch is a rich thing. Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares. Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch as a robe or mantle with a long train is for race.
    keywords: dispatch
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        item: #26 of 59
          id: chapter_026-seeming_wise
      author: None
       title: chapter_026-seeming_wise
        date: None
       words: 451
      flesch: 59
     summary: There are some people who seem to be wiser than they are, while others are more reserved and secretive. Some help themselves with countenance and gesture, and are wise by signs. Some make light of things that are beyond their reach, so their ignorance seems judgmental.
    keywords: man
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        item: #27 of 59
          id: chapter_027-friendship
      author: None
       title: chapter_027-friendship
        date: None
       words: 2605
      flesch: 64
     summary: According to him, a man who detests society and loves solitude is either a wild beast or a god. He believes that friendship is the principal fruit of solitude, because it is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart.
    keywords: counsel; friend; friendship; fruit; man
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        item: #28 of 59
          id: chapter_028-expense
      author: None
       title: chapter_028-expense
        date: None
       words: 411
      flesch: 72
     summary: Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Extraordinary expense should be limited by the worth of the occasion. If a man will keep but of even hand, his ordinary expenses should be but to the half of his receipts. If he thinks to wax rich, he should spend only to the third part. It is no baseness to look into one's own estate.
    keywords: man
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        item: #29 of 59
          id: chapter_029-the_true_greatness_kingdoms_and_estates
      author: None
       title: chapter_029-the_true_greatness_kingdoms_and_estates
        date: None
       words: 3211
      flesch: 63
     summary: There are two types of people who can make a small state great and one that can't. The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure, and the greatness of finances and revenue, falls under computation.
    keywords: arms; greatness; people; romans; state; war; wars
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        item: #30 of 59
          id: chapter_030-regiment_health
      author: None
       title: chapter_030-regiment_health
        date: None
       words: 598
      flesch: 66
     summary: Regimen of Health is the best way to preserve health. It is safer to change many things than to change one thing at a time. To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed is one of the best precepts of long-lasting health.
    keywords: health
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        item: #31 of 59
          id: chapter_031-suspicion
      author: None
       title: chapter_031-suspicion
        date: None
       words: 391
      flesch: 78
     summary: Suspicions cloud the mind and cloud the brain. In fearful natures they gain ground too fast. Men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. The best way to clear the way in this wood of suspicions is to communicate them with the party that he suspects.
    keywords: suspicions
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        item: #32 of 59
          id: chapter_032-discourse
      author: None
       title: chapter_032-discourse
        date: None
       words: 667
      flesch: 73
     summary: In discourse and speech of conversation it is good to vary and intermingle the speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions, with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest. Some people think their wits have been asleep, except when they dart out something that is piquant.
    keywords: speech
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        item: #33 of 59
          id: chapter_033-plantations
      author: None
       title: chapter_033-plantations
        date: None
       words: 1035
      flesch: 69
     summary: Plantations are among ancient, primitive, and heroical works. Planting of countries is like planting of woods. People should be gardeners, ploughmen, laborers, smiths, carpenters, joiners, fishermen, fowlers, apothecaries, surgeons, cooks, and bakers. The principal thing that destroys most plantations is the base and hasty drawing of profit.
    keywords: people; plantation
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        item: #34 of 59
          id: chapter_034-riches
      author: None
       title: chapter_034-riches
        date: None
       words: 1148
      flesch: 74
     summary: Riches are the baggage of virtue. They are of no real use except in distribution. Riches are as a strong hold, in the imagination of the rich man. They have sold more men than they have bought out. They come by the death of others.
    keywords: man; men; riches
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        item: #35 of 59
          id: chapter_035-prophecies
      author: None
       title: chapter_035-prophecies
        date: None
       words: 898
      flesch: 74
     summary: There are many prophecies that have been of certain memory and from hidden causes. Homer, Seneca, Polycrates, Tiberius, Vespasian, M. Brutus, Domitian, Henry the Seventh and Dr. Penal are just a few examples.
    keywords: england; prophecies; prophecy
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        item: #36 of 59
          id: chapter_036-ambition
      author: None
       title: chapter_036-ambition
        date: None
       words: 748
      flesch: 71
     summary: Ambition is like choler. It is good for princes if they use ambitious men to handle the affairs of the state, but it is good not to use such natures at all. Good commanders in the wars must be never so ambitious. Ambitions are useful in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. They are less dangerous if they are of mean birth.
    keywords: men
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        item: #37 of 59
          id: chapter_037-masques_and_triumphs
      author: None
       title: chapter_037-masques_and_triumphs
        date: None
       words: 559
      flesch: 77
     summary: Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. Acting in song, especially in dialogues, is an extreme good grace. The colors that show best by candle-light are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water-green.
    keywords: pleasure
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        item: #38 of 59
          id: chapter_038-nature_in_men
      author: None
       title: chapter_038-nature_in_men
        date: None
       words: 529
      flesch: 65
     summary: Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. He that seeketh victory over his nature should not set himself too great or too small tasks. Let him practise with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes, and after a time with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes.
    keywords: nature
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        item: #39 of 59
          id: chapter_039-custom_and_education
      author: None
       title: chapter_039-custom_and_education
        date: None
       words: 596
      flesch: 67
     summary: Men's thoughts are according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to learning and infused opinions, but their deeds are after as they have been accustomed. Machiavel knew not of Friar Clement or Ravillac, nor a Jaureguy or Baltazar Gerard, but he knew of the rule that nature, nor the engagement of words, are not so forcible as custom.
    keywords: custom; men
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        item: #40 of 59
          id: chapter_040-fortune
      author: None
       title: chapter_040-fortune
        date: None
       words: 583
      flesch: 74
     summary: The way of fortune is like the Milken Way in the sky, which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together. There are secret and hidden virtues that bring fortune. Extreme lovers of their country or masters were never fortunate.
    keywords: fortune; man
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        item: #41 of 59
          id: chapter_041-usury
      author: None
       title: chapter_041-usury
        date: None
       words: 1284
      flesch: 72
     summary: The discommodities of usury are that it makes fewer merchants and it makes poor merchants. It also brings the treasure of a realm or state into a few hands. It is good to set before us the incommodities and commodities of the usury so that the good may be weighed out.
    keywords: money; usury
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        item: #42 of 59
          id: chapter_042-youth_and_age
      author: None
       title: chapter_042-youth_and_age
        date: None
       words: 637
      flesch: 69
     summary: A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge, fitter for execution, than for counsel, and for new projects, than settled business. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and settle for mediocrity.
    keywords: age; men
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        item: #43 of 59
          id: chapter_043-beauty
      author: None
       title: chapter_043-beauty
        date: None
       words: 394
      flesch: 69
     summary: Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set, while virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features. In beauty, that of favor is more important than that of color, and that of decent and gracious motion more important. A painter may make a better face than ever, but he must do it by felicity.
    keywords: beauty
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        item: #44 of 59
          id: chapter_044-deformity
      author: None
       title: chapter_044-deformity
        date: None
       words: 397
      flesch: 65
     summary: Deformed persons are commonly even with nature. Deform deformity is an advantage to rising. Kings in ancient times used to trust eunuchs more than good magistrates and officers, because they were more obnoxious and officious towards one.
    keywords: nature
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        item: #45 of 59
          id: chapter_045-building
      author: None
       title: chapter_045-building
        date: None
       words: 1530
      flesch: 70
     summary: Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. Pompey asked Lucullus about his stately galleries and rooms in one of his houses. He replied that they are good for summer, but not for winter.
    keywords: court; sides
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        item: #46 of 59
          id: chapter_046-gardens
      author: None
       title: chapter_046-gardens
        date: None
       words: 2313
      flesch: 73
     summary: Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. God Almighty planted a garden. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter as holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress-trees, yew, pine-apple, fir, fir trees, rosemary, lavender, periwinkle, the white, the purple, the blue, germander, flags, orange, orange trees, lemon trees, and myrtles. For March, there come violets, yellow daffodils, yellow daisy, daisy and daisy. For April, there are flowers of all kinds, except mus
    keywords: alleys; flowers; garden; set; tree
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        item: #47 of 59
          id: chapter_047-negotiating
      author: None
       title: chapter_047-negotiating
        date: None
       words: 517
      flesch: 60
     summary: It is better to deal by speech than by letter, and by mediation of a third than by a man's self. It is better dealing with men in appetite than with those that are where they would be. All practice is to discover, or to work.
    keywords: man
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        item: #48 of 59
          id: chapter_048-followers_and_friends
      author: None
       title: chapter_048-followers_and_friends
        date: None
       words: 530
      flesch: 65
     summary: Costly followers are not to be liked, because they charge the purse and are wearisome. Factious followers follow not upon affection to him, but upon discontentment. Great followers are full of inconvenience and taint business through want of secrecy. The most honorable kind of following is to be followed as one that apprehends to advance virtue.
    keywords: followers
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        item: #49 of 59
          id: chapter_049-suitors
      author: None
       title: chapter_049-suitors
        date: None
       words: 650
      flesch: 65
     summary: There is a difference between good and bad suits. Some suits are for entertainment, while others are to gratify the suitor's hopes. In suits of favor, the first coming should take little place, so that the party left to his other means, and recompensed for his discovery.
    keywords: suits
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          id: chapter_050-studies
      author: None
       title: chapter_050-studies
        date: None
       words: 506
      flesch: 68
     summary: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise, poets witty, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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          id: chapter_051-faction
      author: None
       title: chapter_051-faction
        date: None
       words: 567
      flesch: 58
     summary: Factions are important in politics. The lower and weaker faction is the firmer in conjunction. When one of the factions is extinguished, the remaining subdivideth. Great men are better to maintain themselves indifferent and neutral than to follow a faction.
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          id: chapter_052-ceremonies_and_respect
      author: None
       title: chapter_052-ceremonies_and_respect
        date: None
       words: 537
      flesch: 65
     summary: Ceremonies add to a man's reputation. Small matters win great commendation, because they are continually in use and in note. Not to use ceremonies is to teach others not to use them again. It is a good precept generally, in seconding another, yet to add some of one's own to it.
    keywords: man
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          id: chapter_053-praise
      author: None
       title: chapter_053-praise
        date: None
       words: 536
      flesch: 65
     summary: Praise is the reflection of virtue. The lowest virtues draw praise from them, while the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration. Shows, and species virtutibus similes, serve best with the highest virtues. Some praises proceed merely of flattery, others of good wishes and respects, and some maliciously.
    keywords: man; praise
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        item: #54 of 59
          id: chapter_054-vainglory
      author: None
       title: chapter_054-vainglory
        date: None
       words: 581
      flesch: 66
     summary: Vain-glory is an essential point of military and civil affairs. It helps to perpetuate a man's memory and to sharpen his courage. It also helps to breed opinion and bring substance to the affairs of the people.
    keywords: glory; man
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        item: #55 of 59
          id: chapter_055-honor_and_reputation
      author: None
       title: chapter_055-honor_and_reputation
        date: None
       words: 570
      flesch: 65
     summary: The winning of honor is revealing of a man's virtue and worth. The true marshalling of the degrees of sovereign honor are conditores imperiorum, founders of states and commonwealths, lawgivers, liberatores, and salvatores.
    keywords: honor; man
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        item: #56 of 59
          id: chapter_056-judicature
      author: None
       title: chapter_056-judicature
        date: None
       words: 1416
      flesch: 66
     summary: The principal duty of a judge is to suppress force and fraud. The office of judges may have reference to the parties that use it, the advocates that plead, the clerks and ministers of justice underneath them, and to the sovereign or state above them.
    keywords: judges; justice; law; laws
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        item: #57 of 59
          id: chapter_057-anger
      author: None
       title: chapter_057-anger
        date: None
       words: 644
      flesch: 76
     summary: Anger is the natural inclination and habit to be angry, but it can be repressed or at least refrained from doing mischief. Three main causes and motives of anger are chiefly three: to be too sensible of hurt, to be full of contempt, and to have a reputation.
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          id: chapter_058-vicissitude_things
      author: None
       title: chapter_058-vicissitude_things
        date: None
       words: 1871
      flesch: 67
     summary: There is no new thing upon the earth. Deluges and earthquakes bury all things in oblivion. People of the West Indies are a newer or younger people than the people of the Old World. They have such pouring rivers as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe. Their Andes and mountains are far higher than those with us.
    keywords: hath; people; things; time
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        item: #59 of 59
          id: chapter_059-fame
      author: None
       title: chapter_059-fame
        date: None
       words: 548
      flesch: 72
     summary: The poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly and in part gravely and sententiously. Fame is of that force, as there is scarcely any great action where it does not play a great part. There is not a place less handled and more worthy to be handled than this of fame.
    keywords: fame
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