Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

There is no desert like being friendless.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Know the great men of your age.