Haste in every business brings failures.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.