Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.