If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
Obscurity often brings safety.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.