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

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.