One joy dispels a hundred cares.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

What is necessary is to rectify names.

Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.