A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.