Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.