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I plainly confess
that nothing more insane can be done, than for a man willingly to come into
a place where he will lose his liberty. But the still greater folly which he
had already committed is his excuse for the folly of this subsequent
conduct; for that causes this most stupid action, the act I mean, of going
into the kingdom, and of trusting himself to the king, to appear a wise and
sensible step. At all events, it is not so much the act of one who is for
ever a fool, as one who is wise too late, after he has got into difficulties
through his folly, to endeavour to release himself by whatever means he can.
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