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"The more often they are honored by the too great kindness of their benefactors, the more proud do many men become.
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They not only seek to injure our subjects, but in their inability to stand prosperity they even undertake to scheme against their own benefactors.
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They not only take away thankfulness from among men, but, carried away by the boasts of those who know nothing of goodness, they suppose that they will escape the evil-hating justice of God, who always sees everything.
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And often many of those who are set in places of authority have been made in part responsible for the shedding of innocent blood, and have been involved in irremediable calamities, by the persuasion of friends who have been entrusted with the administration of public affairs,
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when these men by the false trickery of their evil natures beguile the sincere good will of their sovereigns.