A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.