Corruption -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sections (TOC) : ---------------------------------- * 1 33 Words; 215 Characters * 2 47 Words; 256 Characters * 3 88 Words; 540 Characters * 4 25 Words; 181 Characters * 5 32 Words; 202 Characters * 6 55 Words; 359 Characters Sections (Content) : ---------------------------------- * 1 ...as for the way the king treats people, he likes to share his worries, but doesn't share his happiness. This is not to mention, numerous achievements, a well-known reputation, and going into retirement... * 2 If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions. In a word, abuses are inevitable and their consequences fatal... * 3 It was not long, indeed, till this contribution [taxes] came to be regulated by the persons destined to profit from it; and hence the contributors were loaded without measure; civil and military offices were multiplied far beyond what the public weal required; there was too much government, too much defense of men, who were forced to accept those services, and to pay them, superfluous or even burdensome as they might be; and the rulers of nations, established to protect wealth, were often the main authors of its dilapidation. * 4 Statesmen have sometimes recourse to artifice instead of reason, because their intentions often are not upright. This destroys all confidence between them and the people... * 5 A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman, because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a Governor. * 6 Their court-yards and buildings shall be well kept, but their fields shall be ill-cultivated, and their granaries very empty. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth;--such princes may be called robbers and boasters. Events : ---------------------------------- Corruption -- Added : March 12, 2020 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/