Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

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.

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.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

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