Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.