Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.