We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.