Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.