Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.