More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason