Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

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.

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.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

...be more guided by hope than fear.