The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
The worst men often give the best advice.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment