Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master