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

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.

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

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

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

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

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.