We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.