There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.