Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.