Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

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.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.