To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.