Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
The way to rise is to obey and please.
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.