Whensoever a state lies contiguous to another that happens to be in its decline, the former ought to take particular care not to precipitate the ruin of the latter, because this is the happiest situation imaginable; nothing being so convenient as for one prince to be near another, who receives for him all the rebuffs and insults of fortune. And it seldom happens that by subduing such a state the real power of the conqueror is as much increased as the relative is diminished.
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1. It is composed of about fifty different republics, all different from one another. -- M. Janisson, State of the United Provinces.
2. Civil liberty, goods, wives, children, temples, and even burying-places.
3. Strabo, xiv.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
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