A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

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.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.