They make a desert and they call it peace.

They make a desert and they call it peace.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.